Michael F. Magliari is professor of history at California State University, Chico. His publications on American Populism include “Populist Historiography Post Hicks: Current Needs and Future Directions,” Agricultural History 82 (Winter 2008); “What Happened to the Populist Vote? A California Case Study,” Pacific Historical Review 64 (August 1995); and “Populism, Steamboats, and the Octopus: Transportation Rates and Monopoly in California's Wheat Regions, 1890–1896,” Pacific Historical Review 58 (November 1989).