by Ernest K. Gann. A slim volume, only 148 pages. Didn't take long to read it. The ever ubiquitous "they" made a movie of it with the same name back in 1985 starring Christopher Reeve. This is not the movie of the same name made in 2004 that starred Leonardo de Capria as Howard Hughes. This story is about early aviation, flying the mail over the Western United States, crash landing with a little girl passenger in the mountains and surviving. But like all good stories, it is more about the people involved and what's going on in their minds. Some of the details of the story don't hang together perfectly, but it could have happened that way, truth being stranger than fiction.
The regularly scheduled mail flight is from Elko in North Central Nevada to Pasco in Southeast Washington. This is high desert and pretty desolate. The Black Rock desert, scene of all kinds of craziness, is in this neighborhood.
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