admin | October 22, 2010
Oct. 22, 1929 Urban Diteman of Billings, dubbed the “Flying Cowboy from Montana,” takes off in a monoplane from the airstrip in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. He is presumably headed for New York. Only his wife knows differently. Diteman hands the manager of the airdrome a sealed letter marked, “Open after departure” to give to a [...]
admin | September 12, 2009
This is the fourth of an apparently continuing saga of Charles Lindbergh’s trip to Elbow/Lindbergh Lake in September 1927 (the first three posts are below). What did he do there? Jon Axline, historian for the Montana Department of Transportation, wrote this about that part of Lindbergh’s Montana visit in 2004, in his article “The Lone [...]
admin | September 12, 2009
We’ve been talking about Charles Lindbergh’s “vacation” to what would become Lindbergh Lake in the Upper Swan Valley from Sept. 8-11,1927 (see my two previous posts below). He was escorted there from Butte by Anaconda Co. officials, in the midst of a cross-country tour that included public stops in Butte and Helena. The location of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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