TY - BOOK AU - Rich,Doris L. TI - Queen Bess: daredevil aviator SN - 1560982659 (alk. paper) AV - TL540.C646 R52 1993 U1 - 629.13/092 20 PY - 1993/// CY - Washington PB - Smithsonian Institution Press KW - Coleman, Bessie, KW - Coleman, Bessie KW - African American women air pilots KW - Biography KW - Air pilots KW - United States KW - Biographie KW - swd KW - Flying (Aircraft) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-141) and index; Reluctant cotton picker -- That wonderful town -- Mlle. Bessie Coleman-pilote aviateur -- Second time around -- Pleasing the crowds, alienating the critics -- Forced landing -- Grounded -- Texas triumph -- Nearing the goal -- Sky has a limit -- Epilogue N2 - Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman aviator, was a barnstormer and flying circus performer in the early days of American aviation before her death in an airplane crash in 1926 UR - http://www.archive.org/details/queenbessdaredev00rich UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1406483M ER -