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WAR, DEPRESSION, AND MORE WAR It just happened. Cars, phones, lights, sewers, and regular pay checks. No more horses, hay, barns, chickens, and cows in the towns. It happened overnight. —ADA WILSON
Roosevelt inauguration today. We got our checks but for what purpose? Banks are closed. —VIRGINIA HANSEN
J. he period from 1914 to 1945 is one of the most dramatic in United States and Utah history. The changes brought to the American experience during those thirty years altered the nation, the state, and Cache County. War and depression and how these catastrophic events influenced people's lives are the major themes of this entire period. Whde World War I saw a fantastic boost in the need for agricultural goods, the post-war years saw Cache County and the nation plunge into an agricultural depression that lasted for nearly two decades. The federal response to the economic Great Depression of the 1930s had a gigantic impact on the valley. Simultaneously, the 275
