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Later that year, on October 29, our country slid into massive panic. On Black Tuesday, as it's come to be known, the stock market crashed, and Americans plunged headlong into the Great Depression. The United States government established the Civilian Conservation Corps as a federal relief program for the unemployed. The CCC worked in Yellowstone from 1933 through the summer of 1941. They provided general park maintenance, including trail and road construction, brush control, and clean-up duties. |
