The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes
por Lauren Kessler
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The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes, Lauren Kessler. Published by Random House, 2000. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 351pp. with black and white photographs. Quarter black over cream boards. Tiny spot to front board; contents are in fine condition; light shelf wear to jacket.
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. 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.
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Lauren Kessler is the author of nine books, among them Stubborn Twig , 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 Hardcover edition.
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