Wallace .O. Chariton - The Great Texas Airship Mystery
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Wallace O. Chariton explores the great Texas airship adventure from beginning to end and retells the story exactly as it unfolded in 1897.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chariton, Wallace O. The great Texas airship mystery / by Wallace O. Chariton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55622-140-1 : $16.95 1. AirshipsTexasHistory. 2. AeronauticsTexasMiscellanea. TL651.C52 1990 001,0'42dc20 90-12932 CIP
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CONTENTS
Part One Setting the Stage for a Mystery
Chapter One Turning Back the Calender The "Gay 90s" were a time of unprecedented scientific advancement and that fact helped set the stage for the great airship mystery.
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Chapter Two California Roots Although many Texans might not care to admit it, the great Texas airship mystery actually began on the left coast.
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Chapter Three The Midwest Invasion After a pleasant trip throughout Northern California, Washington, Oregon, and parts of Canada, the airship took a couple of months off then invaded the Midwest portion of the United States.
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Chapter Four Meanwhile, Back in Texas While airship stories were flying from Kansas to the Great Lakes, it was life as usual in Texas.
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Part Two The Texas Airship Log, Star Dates AprilMay, 1897
Chapter Five April 12 to 16, 1897 The airship arrived in Texas for a month-long journey that began with an extensive tour of North Texas.
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Chapter Six April 17 to 19, 1897 The long Easter weekend was the most active period for the mysterious flying machine in Texas.
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Chapter Seven April 20 to May 12, 1897 The airship moved into South Texas for a brief tour and then headed back north, never to be seen or heard from again.
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Part Three The Search for Solutions
Chapter Eight The Newspaper Contribution Were the newspapers innocent bystanders in a real mystery or were they conspirators in a well orchestrated hoax?
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Chapter Nine The Lighter Side of the Airship Adventure Through all the confusion and uncertainty, there was still plenty of room for humor and airship fun.
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Chapter Ten "Truthful" Scully and the Railroad Conspiracy Many people believe that railroad employees were looking for ways to have some fun and they invented the airship.
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Chapter Eleven Close Encounters of the Strange Kind The strangest stories from the airship adventure were those told by Texans who claimed they actually met the crew of the airship.
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Chapter Twelve The Martians Have Crash Landed The most famous story of the entire airship saga was the reported crash of a Martian spacecraft into a windmill at Aurora, Texas.
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Chapter Thirteen So What in the World Was It? A lot of the mystery can probably be explained away with logic and common sense, but some aspects of the adventure may indicate a surprising solution.
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