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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.