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We can fly : stories of Katherine Stinson and other gutsy Texas women / by Mary Beth Rogers, Sherry A. Smith, and Janelle D. Scott ; drawings by Charles Shaw

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7539
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rogers, Mary Beth, author.
Smith, Sherry A., 1952- author.
Scott, Janelle D., 1948- author.
Contributor:
Shaw, Charles, illustrator.
Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, donor.
Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, publisher.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Stinson, Katherine, 1891-1977.
Stinson, Katherine.
Women--Texas--Biography.
Women.
Women--Texas--History.
Texas--History.
Texas.
Womyn.
Genre:
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7539)
Physical Description:
184 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
Manufacture:
©1983
Place of Publication:
Austin, Texas : Ellen C. Temple : Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, [1983]
Summary:
Honors the lives and contributions of twelve Texas women, and two groups of women of achievement--the Women's Air Service Pilots of World War II, and America's first women astronauts.
Contents:
Preface
Katherine Stinson
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Sofie Herzog
Margo Jones
Clara Driscoll
Jovita Idar and Leonor Villegas De Magnon
Bette Graham
Jane Y. McCallum
Christia Adari
Cornelia Adair and Molly Goodnight
Women's Airforce Service Pilots
Space Women.
Notes:
First Edition
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184).
Local Notes:
Schimmel 7539: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Authors' autographs on half title. Review laid in: Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story (by Raquel Ramsey and Tricia Aurand; published Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020), reviewed in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains by Mallory Lutz. With dust jacket.
ISBN:
0936650028
9780936650029
0936650036
9780936650036
OCLC:
8930327

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