Western Baptists in the age of big business

Western Baptists in the age of big business, written by Roy Harold Johnson and released in 1929, provides a scholarly examination of how the Baptist denomination in the American West navigated the socio-economic transformations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Published during a period when the academic study of American religious history was gaining institutional rigor, the work serves as a detailed case study on the intersection of institutional religion and the rapid industrialization of the frontier.

The book was distributed by the University of Chicago Libraries, a common practice for academic dissertations and specialized historical studies during the early twentieth century. Johnson's research reflects the era's focus on institutional development, documenting how religious organizations adapted their structures and missionary efforts to align with the evolving corporate and economic landscape of the time. It remains a focused historical document providing insight into the pragmatic shifts of the Western church under the pressures of rapid modernization.