Fort Amity: An experiment in domiculture
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Fort Amity: An experiment in domiculture
Fort Amity: An experiment in domiculture
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Schemp, Tommy Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Schemp, Tommy Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Welsh, Michael E. Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Welsh, Michael E. Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Fischer, Fritz Role :Text
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Fischer, Fritz Role :Text
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Tomlin, Troy J. Role :Text
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Tomlin, Troy J. Role :Text
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University of Northern Colorado Role :Text(marcrelator)
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University of Northern Colorado (keyDate="yes")
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Greeley, CO
August 2011
University of Northern Colorado (keyDate="yes")
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Greeley, CO
August 2011
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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. note
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General William Booth
In Darkest England and the Way Out
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Farm Colonization Plan
Fort Amity, Colorado
Frederick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker
Emma Booth-Tucker
Senator Mark Hanna
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road
Progressive Era utopians
General William Booth
In Darkest England and the Way Out
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Farm Colonization Plan
Fort Amity, Colorado
Frederick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker
Emma Booth-Tucker
Senator Mark Hanna
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Rail Road
Progressive Era utopians
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