“Grace and Grit” has eight chapters chronicling the early years of the 1900s when inroads were being made by car, plane, and motorcycle with a focus on the women motorcyclists who dared venture out in pursuit of their dreams. Not since the The American Motorcycle Girls, by Cris Sommer Simmons, came out in 2009 has a book spotlighted the amazing and inspiring feats of early women motorcycle riders. “Grace and Grit” was published in 2012, but I just received a copy this year because of the timing of the Sisters Ride happening in July. It has a few photos, maps, and historical documents that are all in black and white. Murphy is a soft cover 208-page book, measuring 6 by 9 inches. I love that the cover is “graced” with the now familiar faces of Augusta and Adeline Van Buren, the sisters who made a transcontinental journey on motorcycles in 1916 and about whom this years Sisters Centennial Motorcycle Ride is commemorating. One of the books Ive added to my collection because it features early female motorcycling pioneers is “Grace and Grit”by William M. I love to collect books on early women pioneers, and one of these days, when life gets slower, I plan to read them word for word instead of just a chapter here, and a paragraph there, etc.
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