"This booklet is ... not intended to be a listing of buildings built, roads engineered and improved, dams constructed, parks created, or sidewalks installed, although some of these are discussed. Instead it focuses on the patterns represented by the different projects and explores their historical significance .... for a more comprehensive treatment and a fuller discussion of the issues ... the reader is encouraged to turn to the larger study, "Building...

This publication is the result of an effort to develop a historic context study to assist in the evaluation of historic properties associated with the federal government's response to the problems of the Great Depression. That work ultimately resulted in two related products. One was a book, Building up Wyoming : Depression-era federal projects in Wyoming, 1929-1943, which explores and inquires into the significance of the various projects over time...