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Emmonds, David M. "Moreton
Frewen and the Populist Revolt." Annals of Wyoming 1963 35(2):
155-173. English speculator
and cattleman Moreton Frewen at first opposed the settlers in the Johnson
County War. Economic reverses
and an awareness of social problems caused him to adopt many Populist
ideas. He later backed free silver and bimetallism, attacked Wall
Street bankers, demanded that the government aid the citizens by
controlling corporate business, and denounced the Jews.
_____. "Populism in
Wyoming." Annals of Wyoming. 40(1):57-51. April 1968.
Political history, 1891-1916.
Gould, Lewis L. "A.S. Mercer
and the Johnson County War: A Reappraisal." Arizona and the West
1965 7(1): 5-20. Mercer
achieved fame as author of The Banditti of the Plains, regarded as
a classic of Americana. It
was a stinging indictment of the cattle barons' role in the 1892 Johnson
County war. Overly confident
Wyoming Republicans suffered defeat in the 1892 elections primarily
because they had become identified with the pro-cattle interest and their
involvement in the unpopular Johnson County war.
His ebbing financial resources and his sense of opportunism
catapulted Mercer and his Journal, the Northwestern Live Stock Journal
(Cheyenne), into the Democratic-Populist camp.
His rewards were a minor position and considerable notoriety.
Still financially embarrassed, he spent the winter of 1893 writing Banditti
in hopes it would enhance his position and pocketbook. The issue was no longer salient in the election of 1894, and
the Democrats and Populists were crushed.
Griffiths, David B.
"Populism in Wyoming." Annals of Wyoming 1968 40(1):
57-71. The obvious
connection between the Republican Party and Wyoming Stock growers
Association, who were blamed for the invasion of hired gunmen in the
Johnson County War, led to populism.
The party failed to make a lasting impact because of the
fusionist/middle-of-the-road split.
Krueger, Thomas A. "Populism
in Wyoming." M.A. thesis, U of Wyoming, 1960. 79 pp. Yoshida, John K. "The Wyoming Election of 1892." M.A. thesis, University of Wyoming, 1960. |