List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One The Exploding Western Metropolis Carving Out a City on the Bluffs, 1856 to 1870Chapter Two The Quality and Equality of Mercy Are Strained The Rise and Fall of the Female-Led General Relief Agency, 1870 to 1879Chapter Three "Back to Their Friends" The Reluctant Response of Male-Led Relief, 1880 to the Eve of the World WarChapter Four "Idiots, Imbeciles, Slaves and Women" Women's Activism in Kansas City, 1880 to World War IChapter Five Morally and Legally Entitled Women's Political Activism in the Interwar Period in Kansas CityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex