| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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Book Review

Alaska's Women Pilots: Contemporary Portraits. By Jenifer Lee Fratzke. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004, xiv + 231 pp. Illustrations, map, glossary, bibliography, index. $22.95.)

With few roads and railroads, and riverboat travel seasonal, aviation revolutionized transportation in Alaska when introduced in the 1910s. By the mid-1930s, airplanes were moving over a third of the freight around the territory. Women were among the first pilots to work in the territory, although they were few in number. Jenifer Fratzke starts her book with a brief review of aviation highlights in Alaska history, a few comments about the women she selected to profile, and a vivid account of an accident when she was at the controls of a plane. Fratzke was a flight attendant and commercial and recreational pilot in Alaska for eighteen years. Throughout the book she refers to her career and her struggle to accept that a health problem forced her to quit flying.

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