Struggle against Great Odds: Challenges in Utah's Marginal Agricultural Areas, 1925-39 BY BRIAN Q. CANNON
JjlSASTER STALKED MUCH OF UTAH'S AGRICULTURE i n t h e 1920s a n d
'30s. Indeed, the years 1925-39 can be viewed as a lotmd of rural distress. Environmental, sociocultural, and economic factors handicapped farmers and ranchers throughout the state but most acutely in marginal agricultural areas: southern, eastern, and western Utah. Haphazardly extended beyond its environmental and economic limits, agriculture there began to flounder on its wobbly framework. Mr. Cannon is a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Above: Drilling grass mixtures on denuded federal rangeland.
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