03158cam a2200505 i 4500 1262041164 TxAuBib 180511s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017058447 9781328876645 hardcover 1328876640 hardcover 40028385023 (OCoLC)18582 TxAuBib rda O'Brien, Keith, 1973-, author. Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history / Keith O'Brien. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] ©2018. xiv, 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""An Eamon Dolan Book."". Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-327) and index. The miracle of Wichita -- Devotedly, Ruth -- Real and natural, every inch -- The fortune of the air -- The fairest of the brave and the bravest of the fair -- Flying salesgirls -- The right sort of girl -- City of destiny -- If this is to be a derby -- There is only one Cleveland -- Good eggs -- Mr. Putnam and me -- Law of fate -- Give a girl credit -- Grudge flight -- Spetakkel -- All things being equal -- That's what I think of wives flying -- They'll be in our hair -- Playing hunches -- A woman couldn't win -- The top of the hill. ""High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot""-- Provided by publisher. ""Keith O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama housewife; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita, Kansas. Together they fought for the chance to race against the men--and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all.""--Dust jacket flap. Klingensmith, Florence Gunderson 1904-1933. Elder, Ruth 1902-1977. Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937. Nichols, Ruth 1901-1960. Thaden, Louise McPhetridge 1905-1979. Bendix Trophy Race 1936. Airplane racing United States. Women air pilots United States Biography. Women air pilots. Air shows United States History. Air shows. United States. Biography. History. Biographies. https://cornerstonesofscience.org/ https://cornerstonesofscience.org/