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).