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With thanks to the Tofte Lake Center and in honor of artist and nature lover Gaia
Fenna, who it is said had a bit of Hallie’s spirit. And, as always, with love to Bryan.

— Aimée

To the forests and parks of California where I spent my childhood summers.
They are a gift worth being protected.

— David

Photograph of Hallie Morse Daggett with binoculars courtesy
of Klamath National Forest, Yreka, California

Photographs of Hallie Morse Daggett at pole-mounted
telephone and at desk telephone used with permission of
the Siskiyou County Museum, Yreka, California

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bissonette, Aimée M., author. | Hohn, David, 1974- illustrator.
Title: Headstrong Hallie! : the story of Hallie Morse Daggett, the first female “fire guard” / written by Aimée Bissonette ; illustrated by David Hohn.
Description: Ann Arbor : Sleeping Bear Press, 2021. | Audience: Ages 6-10 | Summary: “In the 1880s the U.S. Forest Service didn’t hire women, thinking they couldn’t handle the
physical challenges of the work, but Hallie Morse Daggett overcame discrimination to become the first woman “fire guard” hired by the U.S. Forest Service”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020031590 | ISBN 9781534110618 (hardcover) | Subjects: LCSH: Daggett, Hallie Morse, 1878-1964--Juvenile literature. | Fire lookouts—Oregon—Klamath Marsh
National Wildlife Refuge--Biography—Juvenile literature. | United States. Forest Service—Officials and employees—Juvenile literature. Classification: LCC SD421.375 .B57 2021 | DDC
634.9/618—dc23 | LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031590

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