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Cummins, Julie.
Women daredevils
[HC] :
thrills, chills, and frills /
Julie Cummins ; illustrated by Cheryl Harness.
1st ed.
New York :
Dutton Children's Books,
2008.
48 p. :
col. ill. ;
26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 48).
Zazel: human cannonball in pink tights -- Annie Edson Taylor: queen of the mist -- Mlle. D'Zizi and Gertrude Breton: leapin' ladies -- Isabelle Butler and La Rague Sisters: loopy women drivers -- May Wirth: world's greatest bareback rider -- Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick: the doll girl of aviation -- Mabel Stark: the lady and the tiger -- Gladys Roy and Gladys Ingle: winsome wing walkers -- Mabel Cody: just plane stunts -- Sonora Webster Carver: the girl on the high-diving horse.
The stories of fourteen women during the period from 1880 to 1929 who performed feats of daring from being shot out of a cannon to high-diving on horseback.
20080603.
Women daredevils
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Harness, Cheryl,
ill.
https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018102.html