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Author Kellie, Luna.

Title A prairie populist : the memoirs of Luna Kellie / edited by Jane Taylor Nelsen ; foreword by Albert E. Stone
Published Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 188 pages)
Series Singular lives
Singular lives.
Contents Acknowledgments; Luna Kellie's Manuscripts; Foreword by Albert E. Stone; Personal Memoir; Stand up for Nebraska; Political Memoir; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography
Summary Populist singer, Mid-Roader, editor, publisher, wife, mother of eleven, Luna Kellie was a well-informed, fervent member of the Farmers' Alliance movement in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Radicalized by railroad monopolies, corrupt government, recurring drought, heavy mortgages, and a desperate combination of rising costs and falling returns, prairie farmers were turning their energy toward raising ""less corn and more hell."" Kellie actively sought to organize Nebraska into cooperatives and educate rural people about land, transportation, and money reform. Her compelling, often he
Analysis Kellie, Luna
Nebraska Politics and government
Politicians Nebraska Biography
Populism Nebraska
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188)
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Subject Kellie, Luna
SUBJECT Kellie, Luna fast
Subject Politicians -- Nebraska -- Biography
Populism -- Nebraska
HISTORY -- State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Politics and government
Politicians
Populism
SUBJECT Nebraska -- Politics and government
Subject Nebraska
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Nelsen, Jane Taylor, 1965-
ISBN 1587291657
9781587291654