Author Description

“A Phone Where the Buffalo Connecting Neighbors in America’s Outback,” details the remarkable 100-year journey of Union Telephone beginning in 1914. It is a narrative of how this family-owned Wyoming-based company succeeded in their century-long journey of creating a communications empire in one of the least populated regions in the nation. Union Telephone began its history as a rural landline provider utilizing the barbed-wire strung along fence posts for telephone lines to connect households in a small rural community with hand-cranked magneto phones. Today, the Company has transformed into Union Wireless; a modern digital communications system connecting individuals regionally to people around the globe. Union Telephone/Wireless has faced the challenges of battling extreme weather conditions, low population, and long distances in the quest to provide service in an area that many larger companies considered unprofitable and not worth the investment or risk. The book is a testament of how hard work, perseverance, and determination by the Company’s founder and four generations of his successors have maintained the Company’s vision of keeping neighbors connected.