Clanton, O. Gene,

Kansas Populism Ideas and Men / by O. Gene Clanton. - 1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) : illustrations, portraits - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License First Published 1969. Reissued 2020. Kansas Open Books. Publication made possible by an NEH-Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Grant

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321).

"Nothing succeeds like success": Kansas populism's gilded age background -- A dissident dialogue -- Goodbye, my party, goodbye -- Kansas populist leadership: clodhoppers or agrarian iconoclasts? -- "A turnip crsade, as it were" -- Looking toward 1892 -- "Rats, rats, and pickled cats are good enough for pops and democrats" -- "The first people's party government on earth" -- Nothing fails like failure: 1894 and the redeemers -- Metamorphosis -- Silver, fusion, and success? -- The determined and the disgruntled -- Vindication? The populist leader in the progresseive era -- Appendix I. Individual leaders and a selective list of sources for bibliographical statistics -- Appendix II. Composite comparison of the major Kansas populist leadership for the years 1890 and 1896 -- Appendix III. Members of the 1893 House for whom information was obtained by individual reference and the sources of that information -- Appendix IV. Composite comparison of the Kansas legislatures of 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, and 1899.

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People's Party of Kansas--History.
Populist Party (U.S. : 1892-1908)
Populist Party (�Etats-Unis)
Populist Party (U.S. : 1892-1908)


Populism--Kansas--Biography.
Populism--History--Kansas--19th century.


Kansas--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Kansas--Politics and government--1861-1865.
Kansas--Politics and government--1854-1861.


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JK2374.K2 / 1969