1867-1932

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1867-1932

"Unsinkable" Molly Brown

2002
Looks at the life of Mrs. Margaret Brown, discussing her childhood, youth, and marriage, and explaining how she got the nickname "unsinkable Molly Brown" after her experiences on the "Titanic.".

Molly Brown

sharing her good fortune
2000
Relates the life story of Molly Brown, who rose from humble beginnings to great wealth through the Colorado Gold Rush, survived the sinking of the Titanic, and was active in social reform.

Molly Brown

unraveling the myth
1999
Draws from letters, journals, court records, newspaper articles, family memoirs, and other authentic documentation to reconstruct the life of Margaret Tobin Brown, the Titanic survivor who inspired the musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"; discussing her early years in Hannibal, Missouri, her political work, and her family.

Child of the Fighting Tenth

on the frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers
2003
Presents the memoirs of Forrestine "Birdie" Cooper in which she describes her frontier childhood and young adulthood as the daughter of Charles Cooper, a white officer in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, one of the first African-American units formed after the Civil War.

The heroine of the Titanic

a tale both true and otherwise of the life of Molly Brown
1991
An anecdotal account of some of the adventurous activities of Molly Brown, with an emphasis on her survival of the sinking of the Titanic.

Heroine of the Titanic

the real unsinkable Molly Brown
2001
Biography of Titanic survivor Margaret Brown, first woman to run for the United States Congress, who spent her life helping others.

Unsinkable

the Molly Brown story
2006
Shares the life story of Margaret "Molly" Brown, a wealthy woman who worked to help her frightened fellow passengers on the night the "Titanic" sank in 1912.
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