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How An Inch Wide, Mile Long Fence Saved Crops In Sundance From Crickets 84 Years Ago

Cowboy State Daily

By Renée Jean

June 01, 2023

A 1939 article in the Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard newspaper sent in by a Cowboy State Daily Reader offers a glimpse into another life-and-death struggle between Mormon crickets and northeastern Wyoming towns like Sundance during the 1930s.

Peggy Sanders with the CCC Museum at Hill City in South Dakota, saw a Cowboy State Daily story Wednesday about an outbreak of millions of Mormon crickets on the tiny town of Edgerton in Natrona County.  

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