Helen Gibson was a woman willing to try anything. Advertised as “The Most Daring Actress in Pictures,” Helen emerged in the early days of the twentieth century silent film scene as a rodeo rider, producer, performer, and stunt double for iconic stars of the era. From jumping onto speeding trains to hanging off leaping horses, Gibson’s exploits were as dangerous as they were glamorous, featured in hundreds of films and serials – yet her legacy was quickly overshadowed by the increasingly hyper-masculine and male-dominated evolution of action films in the decades that would follow her.   In the first-ever published biography of Helen Gibson, widely regarded as the film industry’s first professional stuntwoman, award-winning author Mallory O’Meara illuminates her life and career in exhilarating detail, from her rise to fame in The Hazards of Helen – the longest running serial in history – to the devastating injuries that wou