Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. While growing up, she was a real tomboy and very daring. She would climb trees with the boys, ride sleds really fast, hunt with a .22 rifle, and other types of things that little girls didn't do in the early 1900s. She didn't want to be stopped from doing things that people thought only men could do. She even kept a scrapbook of newspaper articles about women who had been successful in what people thought were men's jobs.
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