Agrarian Crusade
Publisher: United States Pub Assn
Published: June 1920
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780911548440
First sentence: WHEN President Johnson authorized the Commissioner of Agriculture, in 1866, to send a clerk in his bureau on a trip through the Southern States to procure "statistical and other information from those States," he could scarcely have foreseen that this trip would lead to a movement among the farmers, which, in varying forms, would affect the political and economic life of the nation for half a century.