on the Wintertime of 1880–81, and farmers were being tormented by insect hordes from 1856 to 1875, by prairie fires, and because of the recurrent droughts on the 1890s. lots of farmers joined the Granger movement from the lean 1870s plus the Farmers’ Alliances in the 1880s. In the 1890s quite a few beleaguered farmers, confronted with spoil and