ties were
severed, even though the wanderers might return, their allegiance could
be retained only by a due regard for their interests and desires.

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 numerous 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 he Patrons of Husbandry"
(1875), and Ezra S. Carr's "The Patrons of Husbandry on the Pacific
Coast" (1875). Similar works induced by the Alliance movement are:
"History of the Farmers' Alliance, the Agricultural Wheel", etc.,
compiled and edited by the "St. Louis Journal of Agriculture" (1890),
"Labor and Capital, Containing an Account of the Various Organizations
of Farmers, Planters, and Mechanics" (1891), edited by Emory A. Allen,
W. Scott Morgan's "History of the Wheel and Alliance and the Impending
Revolution" (1891), H. R. Chamberlain's "The Farmers' Alliance" (1891),
"The Farmers' Alliance History and Agricultural Digest" (1891), edited
by N. A. Dunning, and N. B. Ashby's "The Riddle of the Sphinx" (1890).
Other contemporary books dealing with the evils of which the farmers
complained are: D. C. Cloud's "Monopolies and the People" (1873),
William A. Peffer's "The Farmer's Side" (1891), James B. Weaver's "A
Call to Action" (1891), Charles H.