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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.
- 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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