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Dirty and Difficult: Laboring in Wyoming’s Early Sugar Beet Industry
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
Posted in Agricultural history, Economic History, Immigration, Immigration Policy, Latin American history, Migrant labor, Uncategorized, Under-documented communities, Wyoming history
Tagged Agriculture, Beet Harvesting, Betabeleros, Bracero Program, Ethnic Segregation, Great Western Sugar Company, Holly Sugar, Migrant workers, Sugar beet industry, Torrington, Torrington Wyoming, Wyoming Agriculture
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