BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 



THE sources for the history of the agrarian crusade 

 are to be found largely in contemporary newspapers, 

 periodical articles, and the pamphlet proceedings of 

 national and state organizations, which are too numer- 

 ous to permit of their being listed here. The issues of 

 such publications as the Tribune Almanac, the Annual 

 Cyclopedia (1862-1903), and Edward McPherson's 

 Handbook of Politics (1868-1894) contain platforms, 

 election returns, and other useful material; and some 

 of the important documents for the Granger period are 

 in volume x of the Documentary History of American 

 Industrial Society (1911), edited by John R. Commons. 

 When each wave of the movement for agricultural 

 organization was at its crest, enterprising publishers 

 seized the opportunity to bring out books dealing with 

 the troubles of the farmers, the proposed remedies, and 

 the origin and growth of the orders. These works, 

 hastily compiled for sale by agents, are partisan and 

 unreliable, but they contain material not elsewhere 

 available, and they help the reader to appreciate the 

 spirit of the movement. Books of this sort for the 

 Granger period include : Edward W. Martin's (pseud. 

 of J. D. McCabe) History of the Grange Movement 

 (1874), Jonathan Periam's The Groundswell (1874), 

 Oliver H. Kelley's Origin and Progress of the Order of 



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