The Farmers’ Alliance and the Populist Party Isaac Ware, from Southwest Custer County, Nebraska, proudly holds a copy of the Alliance Independent, a newspaper published in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1892, before this picture was taken, Farmers’ Alliance members came together in St. Louis to form the People’s or Populist Party. Small local newspapers sprouted up all across the West and South to carry the message.

Nebraska State Historical Society, no. 11188.