Introduction
Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of A Spoil of Office by Hamlin Garland. A scanned copy of this book is available on Hathitrust courtesy of Cornell University. For background on the themes of this novel, such as the Grange and the People's Party, please see [The Agrarian Crusade] by Solon Buck, a volume from the Chronicles of America series produced by Yale University in the public domain.
We have made the following emendations to the text: