Chapter CXXIV: Book II: Part I

I. The Plight of the Farmer. For general surveys of the Agrarian movement see Solon Justus Buck, _The Granger Movement_ (In _Harvard Historical Studies_, Vol. XIX, Cambridge, 1913); and his _The Agrarian Crusade_ (New Haven, c. 1920); F. E. Haynes, _Third Party Movements since the Civil War_ (Iowa City, Iowa, c. 1916); F. J. Turner, _The Frontier in American History_ (New York, 1920).

For discussions of the currency see _Homo’s Letters on a National Currency_ (Washington, 1817); _Currency Explosions, their Cause and Cure_ (New York, 1858); _Our Currency: Some of Its Evils, and the Remedies for Them_ (By a Citizen of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C., 1861); D. H. Robertson, _Money_ (New York, c. 1922); J. Lawrence Laughlin, _The Principles of Money_, (New York. 1911).

David Ames Wells, _Practical Economics; a Collection of Essays Respecting Certain of the Recent Economic Experiences of the United States_ (New York, 1885); _Robinson Crusoe’s Money_ (New ed. New York, 1896); _The Cremation Theory of Specie Resumption_ (New York, 1875); _Contraction of Legal Tender Notes vs. Repudiation and Disloyalty_ (New York, 1876).

Eleazar Lord, _Credit, Currency and Banking_ (New York, 1828); _A Letter on the National Currency_ (New York, 1861); _Six Letters on the Necessity and Practicability of the National Currency, etc._ (New York, 1862); _National Currency: A Review of the National Banking Law_ (New York, 1863).

Peter Cooper, _Ideas for a Science of Good Government_ (New York, 1883); _The Political and Financial Opinions of Peter Cooper_ (New York, 1877).

William Hope Harvey, _Coin’s Financial School_ (Chicago, c. 1894); and J. A. Woodburn, _The Life of Thaddeus Stevens_ (Indianapolis, c. 1913.)

III. Hamlin Garland and the Middle Border. For studies of the Middle Border see D. A. Dondore, _The Prairie and the Making of Middle America: Four Centuries of Description_ (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1926); Lucy Lockwood Hazard, _The Frontier in American Literature_ (New York, 1927).

For early realism of the Middle Border see Harold Frederick, _Seth’s Brother’s Wife_ (London, 1898); and Joseph Kirkland, _Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County_ (Boston and New York, 1887).

Hamlin Garland, _Back-Trailers from the Middle Border_ (New York, 1928); _Boy Life on the Prairie_ (Revised ed., New York and London, c. 1899); _The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop: a Novel_ (New York, c. 1902); _Crumbling Idols_ (Chicago, 1894); _A Daughter of the Middle Border_ (New York, 1921); _The Eagle’s Heart_ (New York, 1900); _Jason Edwards, An Average Man_ (New York, 1897); _Main-Travelled Roads_ (New York, c. 1891); _Her Mountain Lover_ (New York, 1901); _Prairie Folk_ (New and rev. ed., New York, 1899); _Rose of Dutcher’s Cooly_ (New York, c. 1899); _A Son of the Middle Border_ (New York, 1917); _A Spoil of Office_ (New York, 1897); _Trailmakers of the Middle Border_ (New York, 1926).