Links to Kansas Aviation History {bbott}
https://newterritorymag.com/literary-landscapes/john-joseph-mathews-osage-county-oklahoma/
After serving as a pilot during in World War I, studying at the University of Oklahoma, obtaining a degree in Natural Sciences from Oxford, and roaming around Europe, Mathews grew travel weary and was drawn back to the lands he knew intimately and loved. He returned home to allotted land on the Tallgrass prairie north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, his birth town.
Found article and picture for Francis D. “Chief” Bowhan. Never knew his first name.
https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/nam-2231featuredjpg
History Aircraft manufacturers in Kansas
https://wingsoverkansas.com/legacy/a93/
main web page for above
Craig Miner is the historian I was thinking of At WSU.
Born 1944 died 2010
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kansas/name/craig-miner-obituary?id=13996470
and from Wichita Eagle
Kansas' premier historian, Craig Miner, dies
https://www.kansas.com/news/article1040566.html
Craig was the second author of the South Kansas aircraft book
https://www.amazon.com/Borne-South-Wind-Frank-Joseph/dp/1880652331
from my web site:
https://ausbcomp.com/~bbott/subjects/aviaac.htm
https://ausbcomp.com/~bbott/winrr/planes.htm
Pictures from Paul Davis
https://ausbcomp.com/~bbott/winrr/winair/wa1.htm
Walter Beech
Clyde Cessna
https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/local/2014/07/05/in-terms-clyde-cessna-s/20903788007/
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2003/02/16/cessna-took-path-to-flight-in-oklahoma/62057625007/
https://www.historynet.com/clyde-cessna-sep-96-aviation-history-feature/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Cessna
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1991/11/06/cessnas-silver-wing-to-soar-again/62511743007/
https://firstflight.org/clyde-vernon-cessna/