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Gerald Stout looks back on early life in the Great Depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great Depression is known by all as the greatest economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. The effects were felt across the United States, and in a small town in Wyoming, just barely established was a little boy named Gerald Stout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerald Stout was born in 1927 in Farson, Wyoming and by the 1930s the United States of America was thrust into the greatest economic crisis ever experienced. Stout may have only been three years old, but he recalled his life like it was yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stout likes to tell stories. Ask him about a topic and he\u2019ll sit with you for hours and just talk. One topic leads into the next until before you know it, the sun has fallen back behind the Rockies and it\u2019s time for you to make your way back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerald is currently 93 years old. And as he tells this story he has trouble speaking. His family didn\u2019t have much, and as he described it, there wasn\u2019t much to have in Farson. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t nothin’ here!\u201d Stout quipped before going on. \u201cIf you wanted anything you had to drive into Rock Springs, and at the time Rock Springs was not a place you wanted to find yourself after dark.\u201d It was a mining town full of criminals and there was practically a shooting per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stout went on to talk about life with his mom, dad, and brother. \u201cWe weren\u2019t a wealthy family, to begin with, we had a couple of dogs and just enough of everything else to get us by.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betty Applequest, a neighbor of Geralds, was born in 1925 and pipped in with the same sentiment. \u201cLiving in a small town I was probably better off than some other people.\u201d Together the two described the community they felt in the little town of Farson, Wyoming. \u201cThe people around us helped us out as much as they could, and we helped them when we could.\u201d Applequest looked back on the time fondly. \u201cI never felt like I had less than anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects of growing up in this time can be seen in the way Gerald lives now. His property is littered with a collection of anything and everything. Stout recently commissioned some residents of Farson to help him clean up his yard. Shaneal Miller of Rock Springs, Wyoming volunteered to help. \u201cYou can see why he has all this stuff. He never had anything and so now he saves everything. To him, everything can be used for something.\u201d Miller stated as she looked out towards the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gerald Stout looks back on early life in the Great Depression. The Great Depression is known by all as the greatest economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. The effects were felt across the United States, and in a small town in Wyoming, just barely established was a little boy named Gerald Stout. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/whispersfromwyoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}