Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Varieties of Colorado Progressivism -- One: Protestant Progressives and the Denver Party Machine -- PARTY AND CORPORATE ALLIANCES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLORADO -- HOME RULE FOR DENVER -- ROBERT SPEER AND THE DEMOCRATIC MACHINE -- BEN LINDSEY, THE FIGHTING PROGRESSIVE -- LABOR WAR AND EARLY PROGRESSIVES -- MAYOR SPEER'S COALITION -- ALCOHOL AND PROTESTANT PROGRESSIVES -- PROGRESSIVES AND MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP OF UTILITIES -- THE DEFEAT OF BOSS SPEER -- Two: Public Enemy: Colorado Fuel and Iron or the Saloon? -- DIRECT LEGISLATION AND THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY -- PROTECTING LAUNDRY WORKERS -- PROGRESSIVES AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY CAMPAIGN OF 1912 -- COAL MINERS AND CORPORATE POLITICS -- INDUSTRIAL WARFARE AND THE MASSACRE AT LUDLOW -- STRIKING WORKERS AND THE SALOON -- FRACTURES IN THE LABOR-WOMEN'S COALITION -- Three: The Denver Tramway Crisis and the Struggle for Masculine Citizenship -- THE TRAMWAY UTILITY AND THE URBAN PUBLIC -- THE COMMISSION GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT AND UTILITY REGULATION -- WHO CAN REGULATE THE TRAMWAY COMPANY? -- MAYOR BAILEY AND THE STRIKE OF 1919 -- MALE CITIZENSHIP AND THE SECOND TRAMWAY STRIKE -- WORKERS IN A DIVIDED POLITICAL WORLD -- Four: The Consuming Public and the Industrial Commission -- CREATING THE COLORADO INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION -- EARLY CHALLENGES TO THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION -- LABOR PROGRESSIVES AND THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS -- POSTWAR INVESTIGATIONS OF LABOR DISPUTES -- JAILING STRIKING PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS -- THE KANSAS INDUSTRIAL COURT AND COMPULSORY ARBITRATION -- WHO DEFINES THE PUBLIC INTEREST? -- COLORADO WORKERS AND POSTWAR ELECTORAL POLITICS -- Five: Ben Lindsey and Women Progressives -- BEN LINDSEY, MOTHERS' ALLY -- CLUBWOMEN MOBILIZE FOR WAR.

POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION AND PROGRESSIVE REFORM -- TRAINING FOR FEMININE CITIZENSHIP -- THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING-CLASS MOTHERHOOD -- THE CHILD WELFARE BUREAU AND MATERNALIST REFORM -- Six: The Colorado Klan and the Decline of Progressivism -- COLORADO LABOR AND LA FOLLETTE PROGRESSIVISM -- DENVER WORKERS AND MAYOR STAPLETON -- THE COLORADO KLAN AND THE WORKING CLASS -- THE COLORADO KLAN BUILDS A MASCULINE PARTY MACHINE -- THE KLAN'S MASCULINE CRUSADES IN GOVERNMENT -- KLAN ATTACKS ON THE MATERNAL BUREAUCRACY -- THE WOMEN'S KLAN CHALLENGE -- BILLY ADAMS, THE UNLIKELY POLITICAL HERO -- ADAMS AND INDUSTRIAL WARFARE -- Epilogue: The Progressive Legacy -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION: THE VARIETIES OF COLORADO PROGRESSIVISM -- CHAPTER 1: PROTESTANT PROGRESSIVES AND THE DENVER PARTY MACHINE -- CHAPTER 2: PUBLIC ENEMY: COLORADO FUEL AND IRON OR THE SALOON? -- CHAPTER 3: THE DENVER TRAMWAY CRISIS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR MASCULINE CITIZENSHIP -- CHAPTER 4: THE CONSUMING PUBLIC AND THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION -- CHAPTER 5: BEN LINDSEY AND WOMEN PROGRESSIVES -- CHAPTER 6: THE COLORADO KLAN AND THE DECLINE OF PROGRESSIVISM -- EPILOGUE: THE PROGRESSIVE LEGACY -- Index.