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A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression, with FSA Photographs
Stephen J. Leonard
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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Copyright 1993 by the University Press of Colorado
Published by the University Press of Colorado, P.O. Box 849, Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
ISBN: 0-87081-311-0
Jacket photos: Arthur Rothstein, FSA, Library of Congress; Marion Post Wolcott, FSA, Library of Congress)
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
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To my parents, grandparents, and other relations, most of whom survived the 1930s in Colorado:
Josephine Halley Heimrich Patrick Heimrich Christian Krakow George Krakow Katherine Halley Krakow Barbara Leonard Mary Richards Leonard Violet Krakow Leonard William K. Leonard Mary Krakow Murray Anna Richards Edward Richards Ruth Richards
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Contents
Preface
ix
1. The Year of Discontent: 1932
3
2. Farewell to the 1920s
5
3. Good-Bye to Good Times: 1930-1932
17
4. Breakdown and the Rise of Roosevelt
34
5. Fear, Relief, and Politics: 1933-1936
47
6. The Civilian Conservation Corps
61
7. Blockade
70
8. Work Programs and Pump-Priming
81
9. Down on the Farm
112
10. An Album of FSA Photographs
129
11. Life Goes On
210
12. Decade's End
239
Appendix 1: Population Statistics
257
Appendix 2: Economic Statistics
259
Appendix 3: Election Statistics, 1928-1940
262
Notes
265
Bibliography
287
Acknowledgments
299
Index
303
Page ix
Preface
An ostrich named Alexander tried to kill Clyde Hill late in the night of Sunday, January 20,1935. It was cold10 degrees below zero. Hill, the director of Denver's zoo, had entered the bird's enclosure to make certain that it had taken shelter. In the gloom Hill trudged toward what he thought was a large rock. Belatedly he realized it was Alexander. "With a squawk and a vicious kick," the bird attacked. Hill fled to a nearby hillock. Alexander laid siege. Three times Hill tried to escape. Three times he was driven back, to wait, to freeze. "I never saw so many stars in my life," Hill told the
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