Wiley Post made headlines. He crushed the record for circumnavigating the globe and then broke his own record a year later with the first solo trip around the world. He reached unheard of heights in his plane, the Winnie Mae, verifying the existence of the jet stream. His final flight ended in headlines reporting his death and that of his traveling companion, Will Rogers. A short but spectacular public life that began with its own head line “Bandit Caught, Lodged in Jail.”
A milestone – a marker on a real or figurative trail that allows you to know how far you’ve come and how far you’ve got to go. Here on our 150th episode, I take a moment to consider this particular milestone.
Episodes featured :
From Kansas to the Keiper Belt
The Music of Clearviews:
Even out here in the windswept section of the place where the Great Plains, the Ozark Mountains and the Indian Territory collide, small, sometimes forgotten things may have a bigger impact than you know. An important discovery near the little burg of Dexter, Kansas, or the lack of that discovery had a big impact on another burg, the Hindenburg which exploded as it was mooring in New Jersey in 1937. That, at the time unprofitable, discovery would have an impact on air travel and the efforts into space.
Before he was on the Five Dollar Bill, before his words were memorized by American schoolchildren through the decades and just a few years before he was hailed as the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln was a candidate for President…and it wasn’t looking so good. He undertook a trip to Kansas to see for himself the violence and legacy of popular sovereignty, and maybe score a few extra delegates to the upcoming Republican convention. A rare look at candidate Lincoln and his first trip to the west.
Historians bring the past to life by using primary sources, material from the point of time being studied. These materials can provide words directly from the characters in the story, but it’s more than just a story – it’s true.
Dr. Megan Kate Nelson discusses the primary sources she used to write her book “The Three Cornered War: The Union, The Confederacy and Native Peoples In The Fight For The West.” The source material was able to provide the details to follow some of the major personalities in her book who left little to no information in their own words.
Within the Realm 