Richard Leferink scrapbook, 1923-1944.

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Richard Leferink scrapbook, 1923-1944.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56818698

This collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs Leferink kept throughout his flying career. It begins with his entry into World War I and stops once he sold the company. The scrapbook contains many news stories explaining how the company started, how it quickly expanded, and the people involved, from pilots to civic boosters, wanting air service in their communities.

0.92 cubic feet. (1 item)

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7757139

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Leferink, Richard.

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Richard Leferink learned flying during World War I. He continued his love of flying after the war, barn storming or flying cargo for businesses until he had flown in forty-one states and Mexico before he settled in Casper and began Wyoming Air Service, Inc., in 1931. Within eight years he had expanded the company, providing mail and passenger service along the Front Range of the Rockies from Pueblo, Colorado, to Billings and Great Falls, Montana; Huron, South Dakota; Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and A...

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