Biographies & Memoirs

Horses Don’t Fly: A Memoir of World War I

Horses Don’t Fly: A Memoir of World War I

In a firsthand account of the air war over France during World War I, American cowboy-turned-ace-pilot Frederick Libby describes his enlistment in Canada's Royal Flying Corps and his daring exploits in the air over enemy lines. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Sunrise

Chapter 2. An Antelope, a Rope and a Small Boy

Chapter 3. School and Sis, Wild Horses and the Stinkenest Hog Wallow in the World

Chapter 4. My First Big Battle

Chapter 5. Our Home Ranch and a Man with a Gun

Chapter 6. A Girl, a Jug of Whiskey and Sheepherders

Chapter 7. Wild Horse Roundup for Polo Ponies

Chapter 8. Phoenix, Wild Horses, Wild Steers and a Broken Leg

Chapter 9. Christmas Eve, with Hundreds of Dead Cattle

Chapter 10. Denver, Where I’ m Rolled of My Loot by a Pimp

Chapter 11. More Wild Horses and a Big Gray Outlaw

Chapter 12. Fourth of July Celebration, Susie, Cyclone and a Wild Beautiful Brown Stallion

Chapter 13. God’s Country — Imperial Valley

Chapter 14. Calgary, Investment in Oil and a Soldier of the King

Chapter 15. Loss of Citizenship, Sergeants Moose and Little Moose and the Motor Transport

Chapter 16. An Operation, an Examination, Mutiny and War

Chapter 17. I Join the Royal Air Force to Get out of the Rain

Chapter 18. First Flight over German Lines, One Enemy Plane Confirmed

Chapter 19. Recommended for My Commission and Trying to Live, I Have a Great Idea

Chapter 20. Back to France as an Officer, Where I Meet and Become Friends with the Royal Flying Corps’ Greatest Fighting Ace, Lieutenant Albert Ball

Chapter 21. In a Drinking Bout, Price and I Lose a Battle to Our Own Artillery

Chapter 22. Boelcke, the Great German Ace, and His Boys Cause Us Our Greatest Loss in Any Single Engagement

Chapter 23. Captain Price Returns to England — I Follow Shortly — We Are Both Decorated at Buckingham Palace by His Majesty King George V

Chapter 24. Thank God for America’s Ambassador Page and His Military Attache, Captain Chapman

Chapter 25. A Great Major, a Sick Observer and a Forced Landing In Our Trenches

Chapter 26. Dinner at the Savoy in London to Honor Our Old Commanding Officer — Back to France, Where We Lose Captain Harold Balfour in a Dogfight

Chapter 27. Two Americans Who Lost Their Citizenship Return to America at General Mitchell’s Recommendation

Chapter 28. Two Weeks with My Family In Boston — Then Texas, Where Space Began — A Hospital That Was a Morgue

Chapter 29. New York to See a Great Specialist — The Auctioning of the First American Colors to Cross the German Lines

Chapter 30. A Free Man, Lucky Beyond Belief

Afterword

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