Eastern Iowa's Aviation Heritage

by Scott M Fisher

Iowans embraced aviation from its very beginning. In the late 1800s, Keokuk s Baldwin brothers headlined Lee County Chautauqua festivals with balloon ascensions. Two decades later, early powered-flight daredevils like Lincoln Beachey, Glenn Messer, and Eugene Ely thrilled huge crowds along the Mississippi River from Decorah to Fort Madison. Dubuque s Clifton Ole Oleson barnstormed from Oelwein to Mount Pleasant and in communities in between. Visionaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531655416
• ISBN13: 9781531655419
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"