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Wyoming's Friendly Skies

Training America's First Stewardesses

By: Starley Talbott,Michael E. Kassel

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Training America's First Stewardesses

By: Starley Talbott,Michael E. Kassel

Boeing Air Transport, a precursor of United Air Lines, began carrying passengers in 1927 on small, uncomfortable airplanes with few amenities. Steve Stimpson, manager of Boeing's San Francisco office, considered hiring stewards to alleviate passengers' concerns. Ellen Church convinced him that employing women, especially nurses, as stewardesses would be a visionary solution. Eight brave young women entered Boeing's brief training program in Cheyenne in May 1930, making them the first airline stewardesses in the world. In 1947, United Air Lines established its Stewardess Training Center in Cheyenne, operating for nearly two decades. Authors Starley Talbott and Michael Kassel celebrate the world's first stewardesses, as well as the thousands who followed in their footsteps.

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143967082X

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9781439670828

A History Lover's Guide to Cheyenne

By: Starley Talbott,Michael E. Kassel

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A History Lover's Guide to Cheyenne

By: Starley Talbott,Michael E. Kassel

Celebrating at their encampment near Crow Creek on July 4, 1867, railroad surveyors named the settlement after the local Cheyenne tribe. By the time the Union Pacific Railroad arrived in November, the town had grown from a tent city to a "Hell on Wheels" town of ten thousand souls. Cattle barons brought herds to graze the open range, while they reposed in mansions on Millionaires Row. By 1890, the gleaming dome of the new capitol building was visible all the way down Capitol Avenue to the majestic Union Pacific Railroad Depot. Authors Starley Talbott and Michael Kassel explore a rich past, including the origins of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base, the foundation of the world's largest outdoor rodeo and the unheralded history of early aviation that eclipsed Denver.

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1439673845

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9781439673843

Wyoming Airmail Pioneers

By: Starley Talbott,Michael E. Kassell

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Wyoming Airmail Pioneers

By: Starley Talbott,Michael E. Kassell

The story of the United States Transcontinental Air Mail Service, the first of its kind in the world, is one of romanticism and danger. Through calm or storm, in light or dark, a contingent of courageous couriers relayed the public mail across three thousand miles in less than a day and a half--faster than ever before. Though the U.S. Air Mail Service began on the East Coast, some of the frontier tales of the route through the Rocky Mountains were lost. The western leg of the airmail service from Chicago to San Francisco included the Mountain Division, headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The route through Wyoming, considered the most treacherous, provided harrowing tales of the pilots who risked their lives. Authors Starley Talbott and Michael Kassel lionize these folk heroes, aviation legends and icons of western history.

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1439661677

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9781439661673

Wyoming's Friendly Skies

Training America's First Stewardesses

By: Starley Talbott,Michael E. Kassel

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Wyoming's Friendly Skies

Wyoming's Friendly Skies

A History Lover's Guide to Cheyenne

A History Lover's Guide to Cheyenne

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Wyoming Airmail Pioneers

Wyoming's Friendly Skies

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