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"GEORGIA JIPP: BLIZZARD PILOT is about a courageous twenty-two-year-old airplane pilot who earned her pilot's license as a teenager, and risked her life to fly mercy missions in South Dakota during the devastating winter of 1949. From January 2 through January 5, a record-breaking blizzard isolated farmers, ranchers, and animals. Georgia flew from dawn to dusk for days, delivering desperately needed food, fuel, and hay. When further storms and blizzards struck, Georgia partnered with the American Red Cross to fly many more life-saving missions. The situation became so dire that the National Guard brought in snowplows and M-29 cargo carriers called Weasels to rescue people and provide supplies. Civilians and military used bulldozers and amphibious vehicles to clear snow. The Airforce launched Operation Haylift using C-47 and C-48 cargo planes to drop tons of supplies for families and bales of hay for livestock. President Truman ordered Operation Snowbound, in which the Army, Air Force, Navy, American Red Cross, and Civil Air Patrol cleared snow and dropped tons of hay and other provisions, saving millions of sheep and cattle. The storm area included South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, and California. The winter of 1948-1949, which affected approximately 1.2 million people in a disaster area of 193,000 square miles, ranks among the harshest on record. At the book's conclusion, readers will be surprised to learn that Georgia Jipp was featured in several newspapers across the nation. Moreover, they will be delighted to learn that Georgia Jipp flew more mercy missions than any other pilot in South Dakota"--
A propos de l'auteur
Laura Beth Dean was born into a dairy farming family in Cooperstown, New York, and grew up relishing blizzard and sheep ranching stories told by her South Dakota relatives. When she was two months old, her parents took her on her first flight to Brazil. As a little girl, Laura loved flying in all sizes of airplanes, ranging from a Helio Courier propeller plane, to a Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet." After an adventuresome childhood in five countries on four continents, she earned a B.S. in Nursing before settling down with her husband and three children in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. Surrounded by farms and ranches, Laura appreciates quiet and blizzard-free adventures as a home health nurse. She is the author of the children's book,
Sweet Potato Moon.
Jeanne Bowman was born (more or less) with a crayon in her hand and never stopped putting marks on paper (or the walls, to her mother's chagrin). She grew up loving the mountains and forests but has spent the majority of her life on the plains of Montana and the desert of New Mexico. She has illustrated
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde and
Charlie Russell and the Gnomes of Bullhead Lodge by Emily Crawford Wilson. Jeanne received the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Illustrator of the Year for her work on
Charlie Russell and the Gnomes. She currently resides in Sidney, Montana.
