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Argersinger, Peter H. "To Disfranchise the People': The Iowa Ballot Law and Election of 1897." Mid-America. 63 (1981): 18-35.  Republicans use legal power of state to advance their own partisan purposes. 

Beinhauer, Myrtle. "History of Farm Organizations in Iowa, 1838-1931." Master's thesis, Drake U, 1932. 

Colbert, Thomas Burnell. "Disgruntled 'Chronic Office Seeker' or Man of Political Integrity: James Baird Weaver and the Republican Party in Iowa, 1857-1877." Annals of Iowa 1988 49(3-4): 187-207.  Weaver was a Republican leader in Iowa between 1857 and 1877.  He suffered a series of defeats by advocating Temperance.  When he departed the Republican Party to become a Greenbacker, Weaver was accused of sacrificing political conviction in order to win elections.  His disenchantment with the GOP, however, came from his belief that they had lost touch with their own ideals and interest in the people.  America: History and Life, 26:10627

____. "Political Fusion in Iowa: The Election of James B. Weaver to Congress in 1878." Arizona and the West 1978 20(1): 25-40.  Weaver's advocacy of prohibition and greenbackism alienated him from the Republican Party.  In 1878, he bolted the GOP and ran for Congress as a Greenbacker.  Fusion with Democrats was crucial to his election.  He soon gained national prominence as an agrarian leader.  America: History and Life, 16A:5385

Crunden, Robert M. "George D. Herron in the 1890s: A New Frame of Reference for the Study of the Progressive Era." Annals of Iowa 1973 42(2): 81-113.  Congregational minister Herron was a Populist and Progressive.  He belonged to several reform organizations, and made a name for himself by arguing that "economic competition was always opposed to moral development." He was expelled from his church for his radical socialism and from Iowa College for what was regarded as immoral behavior. America: History and Life, 13A:5362

Goedeken, Edward A. "An Academic Controversy at Iowa State Agricultural College, 1890-1891." Annals of Iowa 45(2): 110-122. 1979.  Farmers' Alliance got emphasis on agricultural curriculum reinstated. 

Gottsacker, [Sister] Mary Hugh. "The Effects of the Populist Party's Economic, Social and Political Tenets on Iowa State Elections, 1891-1897." Master's thesis, Catholic U, 1962. 174 pp. 

Highland, Ingeborg. "Agrarian Sentiment in Iowa Respecting Certain National Problems from 1896 to 1900." Master's thesis, U of Iowa, 1933.  

McDaniel, George William. "New Era Agrarian Radicalism: Smith W. Brookhart and the Populist Critique." Annals of Iowa 1988 49(3-4): 208-220.  Smith W. Brookhart (1869-1944) began his political career in the mid-1890's as an Iowa Republican.  He came to advocate government ownership of railroads.  He eventually shared the Populist belief that big business and the monetary policies of the federal government threatened to deny freedom and opportunity to farmers and small business owners. America: History and Life, 26:8586

_____. "Smith Wildman Brockhart: Agrarian Radical in New Era America." Ph.D. dissertation, U of Iowa, 1985.  Brookhart was a Republican in the 1890s, but his later political philosophy had its roots in Populism.  DAI 1986 47(3):1035-A. 

Nixon, Herman Clarence. "The Economic Basis of the Populist Movement in Iowa." Iowa Journal of History and Politics. 21:373-396. July 1923.   

_____. "The Populist Movement in Iowa." Iowa Journal of History and Politics. 24:3-107. January 1926.  Agricultural discontent, predecessor farmer movements, and Populist Party.   

_____. "The Populist Movement in Iowa." Ph.D. dissertation, U of Chicago, 1925. 153 pp.  Abstract of Theses. Humanistic Series, v. 3, pp. 207-213.  Chicago, U of Chicago P, 1925. 

Nydegger, Walter Ellsworth. "The Election of 1892 in Iowa." Iowa Journal of History and Politics. 25:359-449. July 1927.  

Ostler, Jeffrey. Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.  Derived from, "The Fate of Populism: Agrarian Radicalism and State Politics in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892." PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 1990.  487 pages.  DAI, v. 51-12A, p. 4287.  Agricultural crisis caused a political crisis in Kansas and Nebraska, but not in Iowa.  In Kansas and Nebraska, the GOP overwhelmingly dominated politics.  Rejection by those who governed the Kansas and Nebraska political systems explains the higher level of farmer radicalism in those states.  The competitiveness of Iowa politics caused each major party to accommodate farmer complaints for fear the other might engross the farmer vote and leave their own party as a permanent minority.  The success of the Iowa Farmers Alliance in securing an elective railroad commission in 1888, committed Alliance leaders to a web of political obligations that bound them to the major parties.  Working within the contemporary political system likewise explains Iowa Alliancemen's failure to adopt a comprehensive economic program or a substantial critique of the existing political order.   

_____. "Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska But Weak in Iowa." Western Historical Quarterly 1992 23(4): 451-474.  Economic hardship is inadequate to explain why the People's Party was successful in the election of 1892 in Nebraska and Kansas but not in neighboring Iowa. A third party developed in Nebraska and Kansas but not in Iowa because there the Iowa Farmers' Alliance-led reform movement achieved some influence within the two-party system. In Kansas and Nebraska, the Democratic Party remained weak and irrelevant.  Unable to gain the support of the Republicans, the reformists turned to the People's Party for help, sweeping the 1892 elections. America: History and Life, 32:1906

Schmidt, Louis Bernard. "Farm Organization in Iowa." Palimpset. 31(4):117-64. April 1950.  Superficial, popular account.   

_____. "Farmers' Organizations." in A Century of Farming in Iowa, 1846-1946. p. 313-335. Ames: Iowa State College P, 1946.  

Schott, Stephen Brian. "Agrarian Issues of Discontent as Reflected in Cases Appealed from the Iowa Supreme Court to the United States Supreme Court Between 1877-1900." Master's thesis (Political Science), U of Iowa. 1972.  

Wilkens, Kenneth Gerhard. "A Rhetorical Study of the Speechmaking of General James B. Weaver." Ph.D. dissertation (Speech-Theater), Northwestern University, 1954.  DAI, 14, no. 10, (1954): 1848, 

Wright, Luella Margaret. "Leonard Brown, Poet and Populist." Iowa Journal of History and Politics. 46:227-65. July 1948.