| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West. By Thomas A. Krainz. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xiv + 325 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, appendix, notes, index. $37.50.)

Historian Thomas A. Krainz provides us with a careful examination of the implementation of poor relief policies in Progressive-era Colorado. The study asks an important question: What difference did Progressive-era welfare reforms make in the daily lives of relief recipients? The answer, ultimately, is not much. To arrive at this conclusion, Krainz focuses on six socially and economically diverse counties—Costillo, Montezuma, Lincoln, Teller, Boulder, and Denver. These counties encompass urban and rural areas, economies based on agriculture, mining, or a mix of farming and industry, and Anglo, Hispanic, and Indian communities.

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