Llewellyn Castle: A Worker's Cooperative on the Great Plains

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Index Abney Park Cemetery, 56, 207 Adriance, George, 2–3 agriculture: Bronterre O’Brien on wealth from, 30, 209, 211, 222–23; in Canada, 169– 70; colonists’ experience in, 81, 101–3, 119, 127, 175–76; of Elizabeth Thompson’s colony , 15–16; and failure of colony, 7–8, 134– 35, 218; of former colonists, 177, 178, 192; on Great Plains, 134–35; during Industrial Revolution, 26; James Murray on, 143; land for, 67, 114, 137–38, 175; O’Brienites on, 214; in political pragmatic colonies, 225; in Populist movement, 197, 201–3; railroads’ encouragement of, 87; and subtreasury plan, 221–22; trade in, 152, 155, 197, 198, 212; at Turnly colony, 18; in utopian village plan, 121–22; at Wakefield, 18; at Workingmen’s Cooperative Colony, 96–98, 116, 124, 127– 28, 133, 145, 146, 149, 151–53, 155–56, 163–65, 173. See also buckwheat; cooperative farm; corn; grain; rural communities; seeds; soil Albert Docks, 89 alcohol. See temperance reform Alexander, John, 39–43, 48, 211 Alexander, Sarah, 39 American West: agriculture in, 134–35; Frederick Wilson on second colony in, 145; idealistic views of, 41, 81, 94–95, 136, 137, 142; Jay Gould in, 190; laborers in, 202, 203; land availability in, 108, 219; location of colony in, 2, 48–49, 64–66, 71; Mormons ’ success in, 138; O’Brienites in, 82, 214–15, 221, 226; Sargoods on, 105; Welsh immigrants in, 18. See also Great Plains; United States anarchism, 49–51, 57, 58, 69, 185, 203 Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 41, 50, 51, 58, 77 animals, 92, 114. See also livestock Anti-Corn Law League, 34. See also corn Arch, Joseph, 169–70 Arkansas, 191 artisans, 24, 82–83, 127. See also craft goods Art of Coppersmithing (Fuller), 4 Atchison and Pikes Peak Railroad, 87. See also railroads Atchison County ks, 196 Atchison Daily Champion and Press, 88 Atchison ks: agriculture near, 134; Charles Bradlaugh in, 154; Charles McCarthy in, 187; Charles Murray in, 126; colony land near, 92, 95–96; employment in, 115, 119; John Fuller party in, 118; John Radford in, 173; pioneers to, 87–89; railroad strike in, 192 Austin, Alice Constance, 20, 216, 217 Australia, 170 Babeuf’s Conspiracy for Equality (O’Brien), 120 260 index Bala, 18 ballot-box democracy: Bronterre O’Brien on, 22, 212; Knights of Labor on, 190; O’Brienites on, 51, 58, 59, 62, 182–83, 204, 214; political pragmatists on, 12–13; radical reformers on, 26–28, 31. See also democracy ; universal suffrage; voting Baltic (steamship), 160 banks, 152, 198 barges, 198 Barrow, Logie, 141 bbc World Service News, xvi Beeby, Benjamin, 206 Beeby, William, 140, 146–47, 151–52, 162, 177, 206 Bellamy, Edward, 11, 216, 225 Bell, Roy R., xvi Bevir, Mark, 217, 218 Bielby, Jane, 123 Bielby, Mary Anne, 123 Black Friday stock market crash, 190. See also stock market Bonham Road, 40 Boon, Martin, 57, 58, 101–3, 169 boycotts, 191. See also strikes Boyer, Paul, 12 Bradlaugh, Charles, 129, 154–56, 159, 225–26 Brentwood ny, 50, 51 Bright, John, 34 Brisbane, Albert, 13–14 Bristow, John T., 1–10, 180–81, 226, 231 Bristow, Martha, 1 Bristow, William, 1 British National Agricultural Labourers’ Union, 169–70 Brown County ks, 196, 198, 199, 219 buckwheat, 137. See also agriculture; grain building skills, 81–82, 84, 85, 89, 95–96, 98, 101–3, 110, 114, 133, 168 Burlington, co, 15 Burton, Henry, 125 Butler, David C., 68–69, 70–73, 77 Cabet, Étienne, 11, 20, 38–40, 48, 178, 211 Calabria (steamship), 126 California, 49, 53, 63, 179–80, 216, 224, 225 California State Legislature, 63, 64, 139, 179–80. See also legislation Canada, 6, 86, 169–70 capitalism: Charles Murray’s warning about, 147–48; in cities, 120; colony as alternative to, 11, 124; and emigration, 102; and farming, 223; during Industrial Revolution , 24; and iwma, 57, 59; John Radford on, 201; and labor exchanges, 211; of middle class, 34; O’Brienites on, 13, 179, 189–90; Robert Owen on, 25; in United States, 41. See also commercial activity; corporations Carpenter, William, 29 Castle Garden ny, 86–87, 98, 104, 118, 126, 162, 240n31 cattle. See livestock; Texas longhorn cattle cbup. See Union Pacific Railroad, Central Branch Cedarvale Commune. See Progressive Communist Community Cedarvale ks, 14–16, 185 Centralia ks, 131 Central National Association, 43 Chaikovsky, Nicholas, 14, 185 Chartism: associations of, 57; of Bronterre O’Brien, 15, 21–22, 24, 31–34, 37–38, 43, 45, 46, 51; and democratic reform...