Peg Leg facts
While investigating facts about Peg Leg, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who escaped certain death by molding his own faeces into a knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice.
George Eyser, a peg-legged gymnast who won six Olympic medals in one day (including 3 gold) in 1904.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 6 of the best facts about Peg Leg I managed to collect.
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Founding father Gouverneur Morris had a peg leg, wrote the preamble to the US Constitution, and was a well known ladies man!
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About Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates a one legged award winning tap dancer who appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show over 20 times
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"Peg-Leg" Pete, the classic Mickey Mouse foil, is older than Mickey Mouse by 3 years
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About James Edward Hanger, a Southerner who lost his leg at the Battle of Phillippi. Unsatisfied with the wooden "peg" leg, he designed and built himself an articulated prosthetic leg. The company he founded to build prosthetics for Civil War soldiers is still in business today.
