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#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

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The Subsistence Economy of the Ugly Valley

More than two thirds of pike and logan county households owned their own farms. All families participated in a domestic, semi subsistence economy that included cultivating corn, wheat, oats, tobacco and vegetables. Men and women tended domestic animals such as cattle, swine, sheep, horses and sometimes oxen. Women engaged in home maufactures for family consumption while men supplemented the family diet with the abundant wild game and fish. Differences between an average and a wealthy family were not in quality of life, but simply in quantity of land animals and production of home manufactures.

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