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Horses Don't Fly The Memoir of the Cowboy Who Became a World War I Ace

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ISBN-10: 1611457106

ISBN-13: 9781611457100

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Frederick Libby

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Frombreaking wild horses in Colorado to fighting the Red Baron's squadrons in theskies over France, here in his own words is the true story of a forgottenAmerican hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to flythe American colors over enemy lines.    Growingup on a ranch in Sterling, Colorado, Frederick Libby mastered the cowboy artsof roping, punching cattle, and taming horses. As a young man he exercised hisskills in the mountains and on the ranges of Arizona and New Mexico as well asthe Colorado prairie. When World War I broke out, he found himself in Calgary,Alberta, and joined the Canadian army. In France, he transferred to the RoyalFlying Corps as an "observer,"…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 6.10" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Introduction
Preface
Map of Western Front 1914-18
Sunrise
An Antelope, a Rope and a Small Boy
School and Sis, Wild Horses and the Stinkenest Hog Wallow in the World
My First Big Battle
Our Home Ranch and a Man with a Gun
A Girl, a Jug of Whiskey and Sheepherders
Wild Horse Roundup for Polo Ponies
Phoenix, Wild Horses, Wild Steers and a Broken Leg
Christmas Eve, with Hundreds of Dead Cattle
Denver, Where I'm Rolled of My Loot by a Pimp
More Wild Horses and a Big Gray Outlaw
Fourth of July Celebration, Susie, Cyclone and a Wild Beautiful Brown Stallion
God's Country-Imperial Valley
Calgary, Investment in Oil and a Soldier of the King
Loss of Citizenship, Sergeants Moose and Little Moose and the Motor Transport
An Operation, an Examination, Mutiny and War
I Join the Royal Air Force to Get out of the Rain
First Flight over German Lines, one Enemy Plane Confirmed
Recommended for my Commission and Trying to Live, I have a Great Idea
Back to France as an Officer, Where I Meet and Become Friends with the Royal Flying Corps' Greatest Fighting Ace, Lieutenant Albert Ball
In a Drinking Bout, Price and I Lose a Battle to Our Own Artillery
Boelcke, the Great German Ace, and his Boys Cause us Our Greatest Loss in Any Single Engagement
Captain Price Returns to England-I Follow Shortly-We are Both Decorated at Buckingham Palace by his Majesty King George V
Thank God for America's Ambassador Page and his Military Attach�, Captain Champman
A Great Major, a Sick Observer and a Forced Landing in our Trenches
Dinner at the Savoy in London to Honor our Old Commanding Officer-Back to France, Where we Lose Captain Harold Balfour in a Dogfight
Two Americans who Lost their Citizenship Return to America at General Mitchell's Recommendation
Two Weeks with my Family in Boston-Then Texas, Where Space Began-A Hospital that was a Morgue
New York to See a Great Specialist-The Auctioning of the First American Colors to Cross the German Lines
A Free Man, Lucky Beyond Belief
Acknowledgments
Afterword