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'A Paper of, by, and for the People': The Producers News and the Farmers' Movement in Northeastern Montana, 1918-1937
Verlaine Stoner McDonald. Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol. 48, no. 4, 1998, pp. 18–33.

Sheridan County by Helen Wagnild Stoner; Verlaine Stoner McDonald; Foreword by Joe Nistler (Foreword by)
Call Number: 978.601 S881s
Publication Date: 2013
Named in honor Gen. Philip Sheridan of Civil War fame, Sheridan County was carved out of the much larger Valley County in 1913. Originally the hunting grounds for Assiniboine, Sioux, and members of other Native American tribes, the county boomed during the homesteading era from 1900 to 1920. Sheridan County's storied past includes being a hideout for horse thieves and outlaws and, later, home to a renowned Communist movement that reached its apex in the 1920s. Since that bygone era, Sheridan County has enjoyed an often-thriving agricultural economy, oil booms, and the type of community spirit that knits people together, whether they are newcomers or the descendants of its first inhabitants.
The Red Corner by Verlaine Stoner McDonald
Call Number: 335.4309 M135r
Publication Date: 2010
As towns in northeastern Montana approach their centennials, The Red Corner chronicles the events of the teens and 1920s that left a permanent mark on the region. Sheridan County was the site of an armed robbery of $100,000 from the county treasury, a Young Communist camp, an adolescent’s #147;Bolshevik funeral,” and surveillance by FBI agents who pursued some radical leaders even into the 1960s. The book profiles several influential Communists including a colorful newspaper editor who was elected state senator and later national chairman of the Farmer Labor Party, as well as his comrade, the county sheriff, who was allegedly involved in graft, prostitution, and bootlegging. In spite of its notoriety, the farmers’ movement became one of the nation’s most successful rural Communist organizations during the 1920s. nbsp; By the beginning of the Depression decade, however, Communism in northeastern Montana was crippled. The Red Corner details this strange reversal of fortune by examining newspaper accounts, FBI reports, and internal Communist Party files, offering insights on how movements arise, sustain themselves, and decline.
Montana Legacy by Harry W. Fritz; Mary Murphy (Editor); Robert R. Swartout (Editor)
Call Number: 978.6 M764 2002 - BC Scholarship Collection (3rd Floor)
Publication Date: 2002
"A Paper of, by and for the People': The Producer's News" by Verlaine McDonald