of the Wintertime of 1880–81, and farmers ended up affected by insect hordes from 1856 to 1875, by prairie fires, and by the recurrent droughts with the 1890s. a lot of farmers joined the Granger movement within the lean 1870s as well as Farmers’ Alliances of the 1880s. In the 1890s many beleaguered farmers, confronted with wreck and angry in t