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Acknowledgements Dr. Jessica Clark Sweet Memories: Historical Research Group Western Social Science Association Western Wyoming Community College (WWCC) History Program Honors Program Cultural Affairs Hay Library Janice Grover-Roosa Dr. Sandy Mitchell Dr. Bud Chew Jerry Thomas Nish Goicolea Katherine Wegner Linda Prine American Heritage Center The Wyoming State Archives SmartThinking Sweetwater BOCES Oral History Narrators Ann Chambers Noble Sheldon Flom Karla Leach Frank Prevedel Fern Stringham William Bonini Nadine Johnson Jackie Freeze