Advisor
Welsh, Michael E.
Committee Member
Fischer, Fritz
Committee Member
Tomlin, Troy J.
Department
History, Philosophy, and Social Science
Institution
University of Northern Colorado
Type of Resources
Text
Place of Publication
Greeley (Colo.)
Publisher
University of Northern Colorado
Date Created
8-1-2011
Genre
thesis
Extent
111 pages
Digital Origin
Born digital
Abstract
In 1898, the Salvation Army ventured into a colonization project to take urban working poor people, relocate them to rural areas, and allow them to become productive agriculturalists. The impetus for the project was the book, In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890), by General William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army. General Booth's daughter, Emma, and son-in-law, Fredrick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker, took charge of the Salvation Army in the United States in 1896, and took it upon themselves to carry out General Booth's plan in the United States. The plan was characterized by Frederick Booth-Tucker as an experiment in “domiculture,” or the cultivation of families on family farms. The Booth-Tuckers appointed Col. Thomas Holland as the National Colonization Secretary, and together they chose sites in California, Colorado, and Ohio, for the colonies. This thesis concerns the Colorado colony, Fort Amity. It was founded near Holly, Colorado, near the Arkansas River, and was purported to be the most successful of the three experimental colonies. This thesis challenges the conclusions of previous authors regarding the demise of the colony, and documents the unexplored subject of what it was like to live on the Colorado prairie at Fort Amity.
Degree type
MA
Degree Name
Master
Place
Fort Amity (Colo.)
People
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904
People
Booth-Tucker, Emma, 1860-1903
Organization
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Organization
Salvation Army
Language
English
Local Identifiers
SchempThesis2011
Rights Statement
Copyright is held by author.
