Wyoming has spent money on outside consultants for many years. Perhaps the most notorious of these studies was authorized during the Great Depression when the state was strapped for funds and both parties refused to accept any federal government help from the newly created New Deal programs established during the “first 100 days” of the Democratic administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This account of the sobering experience with expensive outside consultants comes from a chapter in “New History of Wyoming,” a web history by Dr. Phil Roberts.
