The best sources on Buchanan are Robert E. Weir, Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 2000), 73-96.

Enyeart, Quest for Just and Pure Law, 25-28, 41-84 passim,

and Buchanans own autobiography, Joseph R. Buchanan, The Story of a Labor Agitator (New York: Outlook Company, 1903), stove, 54-55, pistols, 240-41, antimonopoly, 100-102, 254-74, 276-77.