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The Happy Bottom Riding Club : The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes by Lauren Kessler (2000, Hardcover)

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Pancho Barnes 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. InThe Happy Bottom Riding Club, 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. 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, she took to the skies, one of a handful of female pilots. She was a barnstormer, a racer, a cross-country flier, and a Hollywood stunt pilot. She was, for a time, "the fastest woman on earth," flying the fastest civilian airplane in the world. She was an intimate of movie stars, a script doctor for the great director Erich von Stroheim, and, later in life, a drinking buddy of the supersonic jet jockey Chuck Yeager. She ran a wild and wildly successful desert watering hole known as the Happy Bottom Riding Club, the raucous bar and grill depicted in The Right Stuff. InThe Happy Bottom Riding Club, Lauren Kessler presents a portrait, both authoritative and affectionate, of a woman who didn't play by women's rules, a woman of large appetites--emotional, financial, and sexual--who called herself "the greatest conversation piece that ever existed."

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
037550124x
ISBN-13
9780375501241
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038314160

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Book Title
Happy Bottom Riding Club : the Life and Times of Pancho Barnes
Author
Lauren Kessler
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
23 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Tl540.B325k47 2000
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Advance praise for The Happy Bottom Riding Club "The hard-drinking, sexually promiscuous pilot and adventuress Florence 'Pancho' Barnes exploded every feminine stereotype on the books. Thank you, Lauren Kessler, for telling her story with the grace and exuberance it deserves." ---Barbara Ehrenreich "Pancho Barnes is an unsung American eccentric who helped keep the 'wild' in Wild West. With tremendous zest, insight, and intelligence, Lauren Kessler has given us a compelling tale of a great woman who wasn't afraid to make life synonymous with risk." ---Karen Karbo, author ofMotherhood Made a Man Out of Me, Advance praise for The Happy Bottom Riding Club "The hard-drinking, sexually promiscuous pilot and adventuress Florence 'Pancho' Barnes exploded every feminine stereotype on the books. Thank you, Lauren Kessler, for telling her story with the grace and exuberance it deserves." ---Barbara Ehrenreich "Pancho Barnes is an unsung American eccentric who helped keep the 'wild' in Wild West. With tremendous zest, insight, and intelligence, Lauren Kessler has given us a compelling tale of a great woman who wasn't afraid to make life synonymous with risk." ---Karen Karbo, author of Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-039911
Dewey Decimal
629.13/092 B
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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by kins_roAug 29, 2016
Excellent Read!
I love books about aviation and people who are larger than life. This is both in one. Being well written keeps it flowing from one escapade to the next.
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excellent
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by carolleeascJan 28, 2020
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by congressallenAug 09, 2021
Aviation history.
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