i think we see that in terms of the life that j. c. penney lived. even though he was in wyoming or roughly ten years and spent the balance of his life in new york city he never lost that essence of who he really was as a country boy who likes small towns. when you look at where he started in wyoming, a lot of these communities were relatively young. even as he branched into neighboring states also discounts have been incorporated into the lake 1800s and some of them were not incorporated until the 20th century. in many cases j. c. penney became the first real department store that was operating. >> tell me about his early life. where was he born and how does it end up in wyoming? >> he was born in hamilton missouri, caldwell county, actually a farm east of their born and raised and spent his entire formative years there. his dad thought he wasn't cut out for agriculture and so he stood in towards a career in retail picky basically lined up an internship for j.c. junior and he started understand retail from those expenses. that's where he really cut

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