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[2016]
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and...
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"Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
18) The economy of Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park, and Washakie counties, Wyoming, Worland BLM district
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Technical report volume no. 42
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1983.
19) The economy of Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater and Uinta counties, Wyoming, Rock Springs BLM district
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Technical report volume no. 40
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1983.