Herbert Bradley was a lawyer, big game hunter, traveler and explorer who later helped found the Brookfield Zoo.
[2] As a war correspondent for Colliers magazine in 1945, Mary took on the difficult task of reporting on women in the military in Italy, France and Germany.
[4] The four books in this series — The Fort, The Duel, Debt of Honor and Metropolis — cover a span of Chicago history from 1812, when it was still part of frontier America, to the World's Fair in 1893.
[5] She was frequently asked to lecture on her travels and was inducted into the Society of Woman Geographers, whose membership included Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead and Eleanor Roosevelt.
It was Bradley's death in late October 1976 that inadvertently revealed that her daughter, Alice B. Sheldon, was the prominent science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr.