ABSTRACT
Denver, with the possible exception of the mainline religious establishment, more than any other American city was ready for Aimee Semple McPherson. Before the turn of the twentieth century, Francis Schlatter had held healing meetings in Denvers railroad yards to which thousands had flocked from the Western states. Denver, Aimee told the Post, is awake beyond any other city she has visited. A year later Aimee would confide to her followers that our average revival meeting offering runs under two cents per head. Denver only mirrored what was occurring on a national level. The election of 1912 revealed how widespread the desire for radical reforms had become. Denver would remain important for Aimee throughout her ministry. [She] probably ministered more times in Denver than in any other city except Los Angeles, claimed a future Foursquare church historian. A month after her meetings in Denver Aimee's relationship with Harold Stewart McPherson formally ended in divorce.
