Big Skies, White Hoods: The 1920s Klan and a History of Hate in Montana

In 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 South—including 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 Klan’s reappearance elsewhere, and what it might tell us about the resurgence ...