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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Rozet, Campbell County, Wyoming, and Its Homestead Families (1880 - 1949)

Rozet, Campbell County, Wyoming, and Its Homestead Families (1880 - 1949)

Whisler, Lorna J.

Hardcover

Genealogy & HeraldryGeneral World HistoryRegional: West

ISBN10: 0998221570
ISBN13: 9780998221571
Publisher: Swan Isle Pr
Published: Apr 15 2022
Pages: 364
Weight: 2.48
Height: 0.81 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

Lorna J. Whisler tells the fascinating story of a small corner of northeastern Wyoming, centered on Rozet in the decades after cattle trails and railroads first reached the area at the end of the 1800s. This is the story of the settler families and the communities they founded in a challenging landscape. Life was not easy in Campbell County a hundred and more years ago. Drought, blizzards, poverty, illness, and isolation took their toll, compounded by the local impacts of global events such as the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Despite everything, rural Campbell County's communities persisted and prospered thanks to the stubborn strength, creative ingenuity, and hard work of its settler families. Whisler's book gives a fine-grained example of how the American West changed following the nineteenth-century Indian Wars and the 1862 Homestead Act. The U.S. government's promise of free land-emptied of its aboriginal population-drew people from the eastern U.S. and far across the Atlantic with the promise of opportunity. Some settlers found opportunity, others moved on, and Rozet remains a reminder and testament of how today's rural Wyoming arose in the early 1900s.

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