of your winter of 1880–81, and farmers were tormented by insect hordes from 1856 to 1875, by prairie fires, and by the recurrent droughts of the 1890s. Many farmers joined the Granger motion from the lean 1870s as well as the Farmers’ Alliances of the 1880s. within the 1890s lots of beleaguered farmers, faced with wreck and offended with the mo