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- ↑ David R. Berman, Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920, University Press of Colorado (2011)
- 1 2 Michael Wolraich, "Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and The Republican Rebels Who created Progressive Politics" Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (2014) p.8
- 1 2 William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, Oxford University Press (2008)
- ↑ Thomas Andrew Bailey, Stephen M. Dobbs, Voices of America; The Nation's Story in Slogans, Sayings, and Song, Indiana University (1976)
- ↑ William Safire, The New Language of Politics; A Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage, Collier Books (1972)
- ↑ Addison B. Burk, Howard A. Chase, J. Lee Patton, Hampton Moor, Golden Jubilee of the Republican Party, Town Print Company (1906)