Heroines of the sky / by Jean Adams & Margaret Kimball, in collaboration with Jeanette Eaton

Author:: Adams, Jean L.
Published:: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1942]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 295 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 22 cm
Additional Creators:: Kimball, Margaret and Eaton, Jeanette

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Contents:

Harriet Quimby and Mathilde Moisant: 1911 greets our first great ones -- Katherine Stinson: of the Great Flying Stinsons -- Ruth Bancroft Law: madcap of the air -- Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie: heroine and expert -- Ruth Nichols: aviator with a purpose -- Louise Thaden: the Arkansas traveler goes home -- Mae Haizlip and Blanche Wilcox Noyes: a tale of two fliers -- Amelia Earhart: she dramatized flying -- Elinor Smith, Frances Harrell Marsalis, and Helen Richey: three comets of the twenties -- Laura Ingalls: clipped wings -- Ann Lindbergh: Listen! the poet -- Jacqueline Cochran: a dynamo of dreams -- Gladys O'Donnell: that winning woman of Long Beach -- An aerial view of the last seven years -- Conclusion and promise.

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ISBN:

0836915399
9780836915396

Source of Acquisition:

Harrisburg copy: Gift and purchase of Alice Marshall; 1991.

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