October 16, 1919. The Air Derby's Toll
Air racers continued to pass through Cheyenne, but not all of them were making it out of the state alive.
This demonstrates the different calculations of risk in different eras. In the current era, any event with this sort of mortality rate would be shut down.. In 1919, even the government, which was losing flyers right and left in the Air Derby, wasn't inclined to do that.
Meanwhile, the Reds in Russia were reported to be on the edge of collapse, and in the U.S., there were fears of a Red uprising. Neither would prove to be correct.
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