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Dirty and Difficult: Laboring in Wyoming’s Early Sugar Beet Industry

Posted on March 29, 2021 by ahcadmin

Like many American industries, the sugar beet trade grew from perceived opportunity and weakening in other formerly profitable U.S. markets. A decline in mining and agriculture in the 1890s led some entrepreneurs to seek their fortunes elsewhere. The sugar beet … Continue reading →

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