Otken's "The Ills of the South"
(1894), Henry D. Lloyd's "Wealth against Commonwealth" (1894), and
William H. Harvey's "Coin's Financial School" (1894).
The nearest approach to a comprehensive account of the farmers' movement
is contained in Fred E. Haynes's "Third Party Movements Since the Civil
War, with Special Reference to Iowa" (1916). The first phase of the
subject is treated by Solon J. Buck in "The Granger Movement" (1913),
which contains an extensive bibliography. Frank L. McVey's "The Populist
Movement" (1896) is valuable principally for its bibliography of
contemporary material, especially newspapers and magazine articles. For
accounts of agrarian activity in the individual States, the investigator
turns to the many state histories without much satisfaction. Nor can he
find monographic studies for more than a few States. A. E. Paine's "The
Granger Movement in Illinois" (1904 University of Illinois Studies, vol.
I, No. 8) and Ellis B. Usher's "The Greenback Movement of 1875-1884 and
Wisconsin's Part in It" (1911) practically exhaust the list. Elizabeth
N. Barr's "The Populist Uprising", in volume II of William E.
Connelley's "Standard History of Kansas" (1918), is a vivid and
sympathetic but uncritical narrative. Briefer articles have been written
by Melvin J. White, "Populism in Louisiana during the Nineties", in the
Mississippi "Valley Historical Review" (June, 1918), and by Ernest D.
Stewart, "The Populist Party in Indiana" in the "Indiana Magazine of
History" (December, 1918). Biographical material on the Populist leaders
is also scant. For Donnelly there is Everett W. Fish's "Donnelliana"
(1892), a curious eulogy supplemented by "excerpts from the wit, wisdom,
poetry and eloquence" of the versatile hero; and a life of General
Weaver is soon to be issued by the State Historical Society of Iowa.
William J. Bryan's "The First Battle" (1896) and numerous biographies
of "the Commoner" treat of his connection with the Populists and the
campaign of 1896. Herbert Croly's "Marcus A. Hanna" (1912) should also
be consulted in this connection.
Several of the general histories of the United States since the
Civil War devote considerable space to various phases of the farmers'
movement. The best in this respect are Charles A. Beard's "Contemporary
American History" (1914) and Frederic L. Paxson's "The New Nation"
(1915). Harry Thurston Peck's "Twenty Years of the Republic", 1885-1905
(1906) contains an entertaining
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