Format:
Book
Title:
Trials and triumphs : a Colorado portrait of the Great Depression, with FSA photographs / Stephen J. Leonard.
Author:
Leonard, Stephen J.
Call Number:
978.8032 Leonard
Publisher, Date:
Niwot, CO : University Press of Colorado, 1993.
Description:
xi, 313 p. : ill., photos. ; 29 cm.
Summary:
"From the time of the stock market crash of 1929 to the return of prosperity in 1940-1941, Colorado suffered and overcame an unparalleled economic collapse. As banks and businesses failed, Coloradans struggled to rebuild their lives and the state's economy, creating in the process a tumultuous and fascinating decade."--BOOK JACKET. "In Trials and Triumphs historian Stephen Leonard blends exhaustive research and more than 150 photographs, including a striking selection from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) collection, to bring 1930s Colorado alive. Leonard tells the story of ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances fighting for food, shelter, and dignity: dry-land farmers coping with dust storms; miners attempting to unionize; Hispanic farm laborers struggling to survive; and thousands of people mailing chain letters filled with dimes."--BOOK JACKET. "Trials and Triumphs also explores the decade's personalities, events, controversies, and accomplishments. Among them were powerful governor Big Ed Johnson's fight against the supporters of FDR's New Deal; the Works Progress Administration and the huge federal projects that provided thousands of jobs; Johnson's 1936 blockade of the state's southern border against aliens and indigents; the violent Green Mountain Dam strike; the floods of 1935; the origins of the ski industry; the football wizardry of Byron "Whizzer" White; the birth of the devil baby; and the death of Baby Doe Tabor."--BOOK JACKET. "Trials and Triumphs is a masterful account of depression-racked Colorado and its people in the 1930s. It belongs in the library of every reader interested in Colorado and modern U.S. history."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Depressions -- 1929 -- Colorado.
Contents:
1. The Year of Discontent: 1932 -- 2. Farewell to the 1920s -- 3. Good-Bye to Good Times: 1930-1932 -- 4. Breakdown and the Rise of Roosevelt -- 5. Fear, Relief, and Politics: 1933-1936 -- 6. The Civilian Conservation Corps -- 7. Blockade -- 8. Work Programs and Pump-Priming -- 9. Down on the Farm -- 10. An Album of FSA Photographs -- 11. Life Goes On -- 12. Decade's End -- Appendix 1: Population Statistics -- Appendix 2: Economic Statistics -- Appendix 3: Election Statistics, 1928-1940.
ISBN:
0870813110