Lee:

I'm not terribly familiar with CCC camps in particular, but I do know something about camps where men lived in congregation, at least in the early twentieth century. They did tend to have large frequencies of beverage bottles, usually liquor. I find it interesting that this trend continued after Prohibition. I haven't done studies after 1920.

I'd love to see your data. Can you contact me off-line? I'll give you a draft paper I'm working on for a book we're doing on the northern gold rushes with some data on logging camps, military camps, hunting camps and railroad camps, if you promise you'll share your data on CCC camp.

Cathy Spude
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From: Lee Bennett<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:08 AM
Subject: Liquor in CCC camp


I'm analyzing artifacts recovered from a CCC camp near Grand Junction,
Colorado.  I am amazed by the large number of liquor and soda bottles.  Is
this unusual in CCC camps or am I looking at a common practice among
enrollees or supervisory personnel?

Lee A. Bennett
Bennett Management Services, LLC
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Monticello, UT 84535
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