We Can Fly, Stories of Katherine Stinson and Other Gutsy Texas Women
- ISBN-10
- 0936650028
- ISBN-13
- 9780936650029
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- E.C. Temple
- Authors
- Mary Beth Rogers, Sherry A. Smith, Janelle D. Scott
Description
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.
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