Studio portrait of Princess Lou-Scha-enya, who will be the first Indian to blaze the trail from Albuquerque to Los Angeles by air on the initial flight of the Western Air Express on the Los Angeles-Albuquerque route. The princess holds ticket No. I and is being sent to Los Angeles by the Albuquerque Journal to tell California about the First American show, Albuquerque's great spectacle of the Indian, to be held on August 21-24. She will be accompanied by Mike Kirk, director of the show, and known throughout the West Coast. Princess Lou-Scha-enya will be the first Indian princess ever to fly into Los Angeles by air. Photo dated: May 17, 1929.
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