Volume 16 , Issue 19

Camp Relief of 1893 (Denver, CO)

Camp Relief of Denver, Colorado was one of those comprehensive relief system that included operation of an employment bureau, street work, and the distribution of provisions to approved applicants. In the Summer of 1893, Denver added a camp for the jobless, who governed themselves through semi military rules until rail transport to the East was secured for them.

The questions back in 1893 that were asked were: "Do state governments have any responsibility for helping the destitute? Is there federal responsibility?" Distress collided with deficient revenues and retrenchment, and often with ideological obstacles to action as well.

Colorado was not the only State hit hard with the Depression of 1893, though. The Silver crash of 1893 affected those back East from New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and out West to Seattle, Washington. Passing through the prairies of Kansas and surrounding states.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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