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02582akm a2200421 i 4500 001 4F28E648AAE011EAB9A2E32697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200610010101 007 n 008 190902t20192018||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1432868276 020 $a 9781432868277 035 $a (OCoLC)1115132788 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a O'Brien, Keith. 245 1 $a Fly girls : $b how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history / $c Keith O'Brien. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Large Print Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 587 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 $a Miracle of Wichita -- Devotedly, Ruth -- Real and natural, every inch -- Fortune of the air -- The fairest of the brave and the bravest of the fair -- Flying salesgirls -- 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 -- Top of the hill. 520 $a Keith O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women aviators: 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. 541 $d 20200219. 600 1 $a Nichols, Ruth, $d 1901-1960. 600 1 $a Klingensmith, Florence Gunderson, $d 1904-1933. 600 1 $a Earhart, Amelia $d 1897-1937. 600 1 $a Thaden, Louise McPhetridge, $d 1905-1979. 600 1 $a Elder, Ruth, $d 1902-1977. 611 2 $a Bendix Trophy Race $d ((1936).) 650 7 $a Large type books. 650 7 $a Women air pilots $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Air shows $z United States $x History. 655 7 $a Nonfiction. 655 7 $a Biographies. 941 $a 2 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20230908010354.0 952 $l YLPC314 $d 20200610030728.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4F28E648AAE011EAB9A2E32697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search