Amelia Earhart - The Untold Sky

The nineteenth century was drawing its final breaths when Amelia Mary Earhart entered the world on a warm July evening in 1897. The gas lamps of Atchison, Kansas, cast long shadows across the wraparound porch of her grandfather"s stately home as the town"s most prominent judge welcomed his first granddaughter. The America of 1897 still moved largely at the speed of a horse"s trot, though the industrial revolution was transforming the nation at an unprecedented pace. In Atchison, a Mississippi River