The Agrarian Crusade
Series: Chronicles of America, Part 45
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780766160170
Subjects: The Americas; American history; United States - General; History - U.S.
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.