Archives On The Air
Archives on the Air takes listeners deep into the archives of the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center. The AHC collects and preserves primary sources and rare books from Wyoming, the Rocky Mountain Region, and select aspects of the American and global past. Voiced by the AHC's Birgit Burke (previously by Molly Marcuse), each new episode of Archives on the Air reveals a fascinating tidbit from the AHC's vast collection.
Latest Episodes
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Lieutenant Colonel R.S. Hartz and a crew of five Army aviators flew “Around the Rim” of the U.S. in 1919 to promote commercial aviation. -
The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 occurred when two prospectors salted an area of northwestern Colorado with coarse diamonds and then persuaded wealthy investors to pay them for rights to their claim. -
Captain Ralph S. Johnson was an aviation pioneer who developed plane de-icing systems and the “stabilized approach” landing technique, which standardized how pilots make their descents. -
In Vietnam in 1968, Bonnie and Clyde, two elephants trained to haul logs, were moved 170 miles by air in a Green Beret coordinated effort known as “Operation Bahroom”. Villagers in Tra Bong used the elephants to transport timber to their community sawmill. -
Henry Sinclair Drago’s book Notorious Ladies of the Frontier chronicled the life and times of more than a dozen women who were famous and infamous across the West. -
George C. Frison left his ranch at the age of thirty-seven to become a professor at the University of Wyoming where he was the head of the Department of Anthropology. -
Although he wasn’t from the West, author and screenwriter Henry Sinclair Drago penned more than one hundred Westerns. -
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“Shark Sense”, an educational manual prepared by the Aviation Training Division of the U.S. Navy, sought to dispel myths about sharks and reassure aviators training for the possibility of being adrift in shark-infested waters. -
In 1927, members of the Lander Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to attract new businesses and residents to the area.
