Far Western Populism: The Case of Utah, 1893-1900 BY DAVID B. GRIFFITHS
decades a debate over the true nature of America's Populist third party movement of the 1890's has raged among historians and social scientists. Some scholars have argued that the Populists were nativistic agrarians, threatened by the new industrial society and obsessed with the idea of free silver as a political panacea. Other scholars have interpreted the Populist movement as a liberal precursor of progressive and New Deal reforms or as a form of demacratic socialism.1 Evidence OR ABOUT TWO
Dr. Griffiths is on the history-humanities faculty at York University, Toronto, Canada. This article will be part of a forthcoming book on Populism in the Far West by Dr. Griffiths. 1 For this debate see Walter T. K. Nugent, The Tolerant Populists (Chicago, 1963), 3-32; Irwin Unger, ed., Populism: Nostalgic or Progressive? (New York, 1964), Introduction and passim; George B. Tindall, ed., A Populist Reader (New York, 1966), Introduction; Theodore Saloutos, "The Professors and the Populists," Agricultural History, XL (October, 1966), 235-54; Norman Pollack, ed., The Populist Mind (New York, 1967), Introduction and passim; David Griffiths, "Populism in the Far West" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1967), 398ff.
