Skirmisher: The Life, Times, and Political Career of James B. Weaver
James B. Weaver joined the Republican Party as a young man in the 1850s and remained in Republican ranks until 1877, when he embraced the doctrines of the insurgent Greenback Party. As the Greenback presidential candidate in 1880, and again in 1892 as the standard-bearer for the Populist Party, Weaver broke with tradition and campaigned energetically across the country. From Abraham Lincoln's first campaign for the presidency in 1860 to the rise of William Jennings Bryan, Weaver played an active and often influential role in national politics.