| Author | Adams, Jean L.
|
| Title | Heroines of the sky / by Jean Adams & Margaret Kimball ; in collaboration with Jeanette Eaton.
|
| Edition | First edition. |
| Published | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., c1942.
|
| Description | xxiv, 295 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, 22 cm
|
| Formatted Note | 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 | Women -- United States -- Biography.
Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women in aeronautics.
|
| Other Authors | Kimball, Margaret, author.
Eaton, Jeanette, author.
|
| LC Card Number | 42-25405 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: TL 539 A211 1942
CA-1903067: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 69225] |
|