admin | September 9, 2009
My previous post got into part of the Missoulian’s account of Charles Lindbergh’s vacation to what became Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley. Here’s the rest: “The site for Lindbergh’s camp was selected by a reconnaissance party sent out by John D. Ryan (of New York), chairman of the board of directors of the Anaconda [...]
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Tags: 1927, Anaconda Copper Co., C.H. McLeod, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh Lake, Missoula Mercantile, Montana, Swan Valley
admin | September 9, 2009
Charles Lindbergh was the kind of guy around whom tales grew with the telling. So you have to be careful about those stories surrounding his visit to Montana in September 1927, which I touched on in Sunday’s Montana History Almanac. He was arguably the most famous man in the world when he flew the “Spirit [...]
Category: 1920s, Aviation, Butte, Missoulian, Western Montana history |
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Tags: 1927, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh Lake, Montana