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　　Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big,messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through threefortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew AmeliaEarhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, andout- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom RidingClub, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of ahigh-spirited, headstrong woman who was proud of her successes,unabashed by her failures, and the architect of her ownlegend.

　　Florence "Pancho" Barnes was a California heiress who inherited alove of flying from her grandfather, a pioneer balloonist in theCivil War. Faced with a future of domesticity and upper-crustpretensions, she ran away from her responsibilities as wife andmother to create her own life. She cruised South America. Shetrekked through Mexico astride a burro. She hitchhiked halfwayacross the United States. Then, in the late 1920s, she took to theskies, one of a handful of female pilots.

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. In The 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 * 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. 
         
　　In The 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."

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作者简介

　　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.

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　　"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

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