01572cam a2200337 4500 130162372 TxAuBib 20080416120000.0 050316s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005005113 9780792253945 0792253949 9780792253938 0792253930 (OCoLC)760118929 TxAuBib Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Ladies first [TNB] : 40 daring American women who were second to none / Elizabeth Cody Kimmel ; foreword by Stacy Allison, first American woman to summit Mount Everest. Washington D.C. : National Geographic, 2006. 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184 and index.) Examines the achievements of forty American women in a variety of fields, each of whom accomplished a significant "first," including Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to become Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman writer to be published, and Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to obtain a license to fly. 8.0 Follett Library Resources. 5-8. 20080416. Women United States Biography Juvenile literature. Women Biography. Biography. United States Biography Juvenile literature. TXGPL