What is known is that two Varney Speed Lines Lockheed Vegas crashed only 16 months (and 1.5 miles) apart, in Herfano County, Colorado, some 70(+) years ago, between May 1935 and September 1936.
Initial research offered graphic local newspaper accounts of both the 1935 and 1936 incidents, along with an official Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) report of the 1936 crash. Additionally, the grandson of L.A. Busch, still residing in that vicinity, suggested a location that team members should search, indicating his grandfather had identified a specific area more than a half-century before.