Ironically, Matilde Moisant, her flying exhibition companion, and class-mate at the Moisant school, is buried at Valhalla Cemetery in North Hollywood, California close to a fountain named for Harriet Quimby, America's first licensed female pilot. This version, which modifies the original version, was edited for accuracy by Giacinta Bradley Koontz , Director, Harriet Quimby Research Conference . The Challenge - by H. Bacon, M. Schrier, P. McGill, and G. Hellinga, Civil Air Patrol, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Third Edition, 1989. Her Mentor was an Albatross - by Henry M. Holden, Black Hawk Publishing, Mt. Freedom , NJ, 1993. Excellent, readable account of Harriet's life.
Pulls together facts from many sources.
For a Brief Moment, the World Seemed Wild About Harriet - by Terry Gwynn Jones, Smithsonian, January, 1984. Quincy Massachusetts , by Patricia Harrigan Browne, Arcadia Publishing, Images of America Series, Dover, NH, 1996. All rights reserved worldwide.