The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes - Hardcover

Kessler, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037550124X ISBN 13: 9780375501241

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Relates the story of pioneer female flying ace Pancho Barnes, chronicling her adventures as an aviator and a hard-drinking friend and host to Hollywood's elite.

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About the Author

<b>Lauren Kessler</b> is the author of nine books, among them <i>Stubborn Twig</i>, which received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for the year's best work of literary nonfiction. She directs the grad-uate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she lives with her husband and three children.

From the Inside Flap

s was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In <b>The Happy Bottom Riding Club</b>, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, headstrong woman who was proud of her successes, unabashed by her failures, and the architect of her own legend.<br> <br>Florence "Pancho" Barnes was a California heiress who inherited a love of flying from her grandfather, a pioneer balloonist in the Civil War. Faced with a future of domesticity and upper-crust pretensions, she ran away from her responsibilities as wife and mother to create her own life. She cruised South America. She trekked through Mexico astride a burro. She hitchhiked halfway across the United States. Then, in the late 1920s, s

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037550124X
• ISBN 13: 9780375501241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305