Peter Helck, an American artist with the talent to make his art speed off the page, decided on a profession at age 13. Seldom does a man achieve childhood dreams with the success that Helck did!
A thousand more stories like this one – tales that are long forgotten and never heard by later generations – are illustrated by photos and postcards. Some are funny, some are sad. Some are fiction, some are true. Actually it is difficult to know, but in this instance, the legend, with the passage of time has become the truth.