Never give up!

de Paul F. Lambert

"A native of Marlow, Oklahoma, who was born in 1915, Pearl's childhood was privileged. Her white father was a gifted businessman who happened to be blind. Her mother was half Chickasaw and half Choctaw. Pearl and her brothers and sisters were "raised white," although she had a loving relationship with her maternal grandparents and aunts and uncles. She learned to drive by age eleven, and her father gave her a Durant Roadster automobile. When she was twelve, she met Wiley Post just as he was beginning his aviation career - and Post taught her to fly! At age thirteen, her father bought her an airplane, converted a pasture into an airport, and Pearl became an aviatrix and a celebrity. She married at age sixteen and at eighteen, with one child and another on the way, retired from flying." "Pearl and her husband "Scottie" raised three loving children, but the Great Depression and other circumstances dissolved the family's fortune. Pearl became a farm wife working a job in town. A fire destroyed most of her and her husband's belongings and a few years later she was divorced and poor. She kept a positive outlook, buoyed by her children, friends, and an opportunity to reconnect with her Chickasaw heritage. She turned to a life of service to the Chickasaw people and became a revered tribal elder who was inducted into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame and the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame."--BOOK JACKET.