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Heroines of the sky
Author
Title
Heroines of the sky / by Jean Adams & Margaret Kimball, in collaboration with Jeanette Eaton.
ISBN
0836915399
9780836915396
Published
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1942]
Physical Description
xxiv, 295 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 22 cm
Notes
"First edition."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 29, 2018
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biography.
Juvenile works.
Also listed under
John Winston Graham Aeronautical Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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