Gladys Buroker (1914-2002)

She came to Idaho already a pilot. Raised north of Seattle, she soloed at eighteen after five hours of instruction, made parachute jumps with a barnstorming troupe, bought her first plane, a 1933 Travel Air, in 1935, and married her instructor, Herb, in 1937, passing her flight test that November. Before the war she became the first woman instructor in an all-male Civilian Pilot Training Program. She later trained as a licensed practical nurse at Kootenai Memorial Hospital. Her memoir is Wind in My Face, and the Museum of North Idaho has shown her parachute, goggles and helmet.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farragut State Park — 3.9 mi
  The Navy built its second-largest boot camp 375 miles from the ocean, and still tests submarines on the lake.

More markers nearby

• Pen d'Oreille City — steps away
• Farragut — 3.8 mi
• Bayview Limekilns — 5.8 mi
• Submarine Testing — 5.8 mi