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Cross, Joan. "The Populist
Movement in Oregon." M.A. Thesis, U of Utah, 1962.
Harrington, Marion. "The
Populist Movement in Oregon, 1889‑1896." Master's thesis,
University of Oregon, 1935. 61 pp.
Holden, Margaret Kolb. "The
Rise and Fall of Oregon Populism: Legal Theory, Political Culture and
Public Policy, 1868-1895." Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Virginia, 1993. 638 pp. DAI, 54, no. 12A, (1993): 4564.
Oregon Populists organized in response to unprecedented federal
judicial intervention. Unlike
the South and Plains States, Oregon had a vibrant, competitive two-party
system between 1870 and 1886 that successfully translated reformers'
antimonopoly ideology into legislation.
Judge Matthew P. Deady of the United States District Court blocked
this legislation. Oregon
Populists organized on the grounds that the federal courts thwarted their
political culture and the traditional powers of state government.
Lalande, Jeffrey M. Insurgent
Decade: The People's Party of Jackson County, Oregon, 1890-1900. n.p.
1992. 60 pages.
Lalande, Jeffrey Max. "'It
Can't Happen Here' In Oregon: The Jackson County Rebellion, 1932-1933, and
Its 1890s-1920s Background." PhD dissertation, University of Oregon,
1993. DAI, v. 54-08A. p.
3177. 354 pages. Lalande, Jeff. A "'Little
Kansas' in Southern Oregon: The Course and Character of Populism in
Jackson County, 1890-1900." Pacific Historical Review 1994
63(2): 149-176. Jackson
County Populists were motivated by the reform agenda of the national
organization, were not especially wedded to the free silver issue, and
were drawn largely from the ranks of farmers rather than miners. As a
result, in terms of population, economy, and political concerns, they
reflected more the Great Plains than the Rocky Mountain West. McClintock, Thomas C. "Seth
Lewelling, William S. U'Ren and the Birth of the Oregon Progressive
Movement." Oregon Historical Quarterly 1967 68(3): 197-220.
An account of the early development and gradual decline of one
phase of progressive political activities under the leadership of
Lewelling and U'Ren in Oregon, 1892-98. Financial problems, personalities,
and adoption of progressive planks by major political parties eroded
potential success. White, William Thomas. "A History of Railroad Workers in the Pacific Northwest, 1883-1934." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1981. DAI, 42, no. 12A, (1981): 5224. In the 1890s, the Gilded Age pattern of community support for insurgent workers achieved its most dramatic expression in the Coxeyite Movement, the Great Northern Strike, and the Pullman Strike of 1894, during which the region's Populist, anti-railroad mood supported militant action by unemployed railway workers and those belonging to the American Railway Union. |