Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 55

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Excerpt from Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 55: Spring 1983The potential attributes of a modern company town also influenced his decision to relocate Parco. Although dilapidated and inhospitable industrial towns proliferated throughout the West, sufficient precedent existed, espe cially in the East, to economically justify a clean, attrac tive company town. Large corporations, for example, often ordered hundreds of prefabricated frame homesfrom catalogues published by prominent distributors such as Sears, Roebuck and Company. Just before 1926, Stan dard Oil purchased 192 inexpensive, pre-cut, two-story, detached single-family houses for their workers in Carlin ville, lllinois.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.