Harriet Quimby led an extraordinary life of speed, excitement, and firsts. In a time when women were expected to adhere to certain social norms, the once dirt-poor farm girl decided to pave her own path as a journalist, aviator, and pioneer in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. She'd become the first American woman to earn a pilot's license and, soon after, be the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel. Don Dahler illuminates the pilot's remarkable life from childhood to her tragic fatal plane accident at thirty-seven years old, finally giving Quimby's fearlessness its due attention.