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Captain Frederick Libby (15 July 1891 – 9 January 1970) became the first American flying ace, while serving as an observer in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frederick Libby )〕〔Guttman 2009. p. 39〕 Libby transferred to the United States Army Air Service on 15 September 1917. He returned to the United States and helped raise war funding through Liberty Loans. He was then invalided out of military service with spondylitis. Despite his disability, and the predictions that he would die early as a result of his condition, Libby prospered as an oil prospector and businessman. He was a founder of Western Air Lines. In his latter years, he wrote his memoirs, ''Horses Don't Fly'', which was published after his death on 9 January 1970. ==Early life== Frederick Libby was born on 15 July 1891 in Sterling, Colorado.〔Military enlistment papers, as reproduced at (theaerodrome.com ). Retrieved 4 November 2011.〕 His mother died of tuberculosis when he was four years old, leaving him to be raised by his widower father, an older brother, and a live-in housekeeper. He attended local schools for his formal education, and began learning to ride at the age of six. One of his youthful feats was roping a pronghorn at the age of ten.〔Libby 2000. pp. 1-10〕〔Guttman 2009. p. 37〕 In the autumn of 1903, he moved to Sabetha, Kansas to temporarily live with his older sister Minnie.〔Libby 2000. p. 13〕 By 1904, Libby's father and elder brother had re-established themselves as horse brokers in Minco, Indian Territory; one of their clients was Buffalo Bill. Frederick Libby rejoined them in 1904.〔Libby 2000. pp. 16, 21, 32〕 He then lived with his aunt in Marshfield, Massachusetts during the school year to attend high school during his fifteenth and sixteenth years.〔Libby 2000. p. 26〕 In 1910, Frederick Libby moved to Phoenix, Arizona because of his father's concern (which fortunately proved to be unfounded) that his son might have tuberculosis. The younger Libby first worked for wages as a cowboy while there.〔Libby 2000. pp. 49-64〕 He then became an itinerant cowboy and mustanger.〔Libby 2000. pp. 74-100〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Libby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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