GRANGER RAILROADS OF WISCONSIN: WHEN MIDWESTERN FARMERS FOUGHT BIG INDUSTRY

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April
Daniel Faas 160 pages softcover

In one of the great political and economic movements of the nineteenth century, a fraternal organization of Midwest farmers permanently changed the trajectory of American railroads. When rising shipping rates threatened their ability to get their crops to market, these small farmers banded together to form the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. Deftly handling the levers of power in their clash with robber barons, the organization's pattern of regulation all but controlled the development of national rail policies for over a century.

Historian Daniel Faas details the history of the Grange Movement and its role shaping the Midwest and the modern American rail system.