Mike Wolfe uncovers the thrilling story behind Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon jump on the American Pickers July 30 episode.

The remainder of the movie is loaded with images re-creating some of Evel's biggest shows, including a jump at San Francisco's Cow Palace, in which Knievel and audience members fight.

Daredevil Robert Craig Knievel, Jr. who picked up the nickname "Evel" during a 1956 stint in jail, is perhaps the most iconic motorcycle stuntman of all time.Ralph Crane / Time Life Pictures / Getty ...

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Robert Craig Knievel, who was known professionally as Evel Knievel, was a stunt performer and entertainer. Throughout his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps.

Life Lessons from Evel Knievel Try again, fail again, fail better, but in leathers on a motorcycle. Maybe throw in some snakes and lions, too.

Knievel lost his cool, both literally and figuratively, when he attacked Saltman, then an executive of 20th Century Fox and also an author of an unflattering biography of the stuntman.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Forty years ago, Evel Knievel placed his bruised body in a steam-powered rocket, pushed the button and ascended over the Snake River Canyon.

BUTTE - It's early afternoon and Evel Knievel's widow, Krystal, is racing around the Metals Bank building in Butte wearing a bright-pink polo shirt.

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