30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Trista - December 22, 2018

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression
Living conditions for migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 1939. Dorothea Lange/History In Photos.

25. You May Have Destroyed All Assets to Prevent Future Loss

One sheep farmer reportedly had 3,000 sheep that he realized he would not make any profit off of at market. With no money to procure food for them, he decided that instead of watching them starve, he would kill them. He slit the throats of all 3,000 of his sheep and threw their carcasses into a canyon.

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