| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West. By Thomas A. Krainz. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xiv, 325 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8263-3025-8.)
In Delivering Aid, Thomas A. Krainz has tackled the knotty issue of state aid to the indigent. Focusing on Colorado, he explains the reasons for widely divergent welfare practices within a single state. By teasing out issues of ethnicity, religion, economy, and environment, as well as a host of other contributing factors, he shows that local officials crafted policies to meet their community's needs, often disregarding larger issues of state or federal law.	1
Krainz has chosen a diverse mix of counties for his study. While the city and county of Denver was clearly urban, Boulder County had both urban and rural residents. Struggling farmers settled both Lincoln and Montezuma counties. Montezuma County also included the Ute Mountain Reservation. The mining communities of Teller County are also included. A large Mexican American and Catholic population lived in Costilla County in the south central portion of the state. In each case, special conditions complicated and shaped the way in which local officials dealt with the poor.	. . .

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