No longer fearing federal oversight, the Invisible Empire planted new chapters throughout the Midwest, and up and down the West Coast. In Colorado, it was led by a physician, Dr. John Galen Locke, who operated out of the luxurious Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. Like Stephenson and Evans, Locke wanted to package the resentments of the age into a political force. And he recruited heavily among the Denver police. It was an open door.
