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Cigler, Paul J. "A History of Populism and Socialism in Two Rivers, Wisconsin." Master's thesis, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, 1989.  

_____. "Two Rivers and the Populist Party in the 1890s." Manitowoc, WI: Manitowoc County Historical Society, 1993. 

Doan, Edward N. The La Follettes and the Wisconsin Idea. 311 p. New York: Rinehart, 1947.  

La Follette, Robert M.  Robert M. La Follette's Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences. 807 p.  Madison: Robert M. La Follette, 1913.  "The Conditions that produced La Follette were in large part the conditions that produced Populism." Hicks, Populist Revolt.  Not Populist, but American agrarianism.  

Maxwell, Robert S. La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin. 271 p. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1956.  

Sorg, Eric V. "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief: The Life of Frank Powell, Medicine Man." Wyoming History Journal 1995 67(1): 32-47.  Surgeon and Indian fighter. Known by the nickname White Beaver, Powell was associated with Buffalo Bill Cody and became associated with forty Western dime novels. He and Cody also shared a patent medicine business.  Powell served four terms as mayor of La Crosse, first as a Populist and then as a Republican. America: History and Life, 34:7720

Wyman, Roger E. "Agrarian or Working-Class Radicalism? The Electoral Basis of Populism in Wisconsin." Political Science Quarterly 1974/75 89(4): 825-848. Populism in Wisconsin arose out of socialist-oriented labor radicalism rather than from agricultural distress.  Urban workers, not agrarians, provided the largest component of Populist supporters. Challenges the commonly held belief that Wisconsin had a long tradition of agrarian radicalism in the late nineteenth century." America: History and Life, 12A:6919