Areva Huish

In 1929 the United States suffered from something called the Depression. Many things caused this to happen, some argue that the stock market crash did it. Whatever it was, it caused many hardships. There was a very unequal distribution of wealth at the time. Many farmers found themselves losing what had once been a high demand during World War I. Many peoples wages weren’t enough to buy the products which would have kept the economy growing, and possibly kept the United States out of the Depression, but problems in one section of the United States would cause others to fail, which eventually cause the Great Depression. Although many people in rural areas weren’t affected as much as those in urban cities, they were all affected in some way, such as a little girl named Areva Huish in Heber, Utah.
Life as a twelve year old girl during the Depression was hard for Areva. During the early years of the Depression Areva’s loving mother died, so Areva’s mining father was le...