Big Skies White Hoods The 1920s Klan and by Christine Kimbe Erickson HARDBACK

Big Skies, White HoodsThe 1920s Klan and a History of Hate in Montana\nAuthor(s): Christine Kimberly Erickson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806195377, 978-0806195377\nSynopsis\nIn the early 1920s, amid rising anti-Catholic sentiment and hysteria generated by World War I, the reconstituted Ku Klux Klan found new footing in many states outside the Deep Southincluding Montana. In Big Skies, White Hoods, Christine K. Erickson explores the little-known history of the Klan in Big Sky Country, revealing what this western incarnation had in common with its antecedents, how it differed from the Klans reappearance elsewhere, and what it might tell us about the resurgence of white nationalism in Montana and across the West.\n\n The early-twentieth-century Klan, unlike its Reconstruction-era forbear, was a national phenomenon, with 3 to 4 million members across the country. But it was also highly loc.