The famous aviator first visited Wyoming in 1934. She traveled to Meeteetse for summer break where she stayed on local guide Carl Dunrud’s dude ranch. Earhart fell in love with the region right away. She wanted to make it her summer home. After the summer, she asked Dunrud to build her a log cabin. Sometime […]
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, almost 40 at the time, disappeared on July 2, 1937, on an around-the-world flight in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra. She and navigator Fred Noonan’s last transmission was near Howland Island in the mid-Pacific. No trace of Earhart or her plane was ever found. In recent years, though, Earhart and her plane are […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2016 Amelia, the short-eared owl The Draper Museum Raptor Experience recently added a short-eared owl to its ranks. Short-eared owls prey mainly on rodents and small birds in grasslands and open shrublands through much of North America. The Raptor Experience’s new bird, a female, weighs in at […]
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, almost 40 at the time, disappeared on July 2, 1937, on an around-the world flight in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra. She and navigator Fred Noonan’s last transmission was near Howland Island in the mid-Pacific. No trace of Earhart or her plane was ever found. Just last week, though, Amelia Earhart and her […]
The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing has captivated the world’s attention. It’s also triggered a spate of news stories about other aviation mysteries—foremost among them being the fate of Amelia Earhart, whose Lockheed Electra disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 […]