Earhart Amelia 1897-1937?

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The Road to Flight.

Raised in a traditional Kansas family, Amelia Earhart faced difficult times when her parents, although well-to-do, overspent themselves. Her mother was able to recover some money from the estate and enroll Amelia in a school in Pennsylvania, but she never graduated, preferring instead to work as a nurse in a war hospital in Toronto. Meanwhile, she became the subject of a seven-year courtship, which she eventually rejected, fearing that the traditional limits of marriage would prevent her from attaining a meaningful life as an active woman. On Christmas 1920 her father took her to an air show inaugurating the opening of an airfield in Long Beach, California. Fascinated by the show, they went three days later to Rogers Field, where he bought her a ticket for a ride with pilot Frank Hawks. From that point she became obsessed with the idea of flying. She convinced Neta Snook, a female...

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