{"product_id":"big-skies-white-hoods-the-1920s-klan-and-a-history-of-hate-in-montana-hardback-9780806195377","title":"Big Skies, White Hoods; The 1920s Klan and a History of Hate in Montana (Hardback) 9780806195377","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBig Skies, White Hoods\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe 1920s Klan and a History of Hate in Montana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristine Kimberly Erickson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806195377\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“With a historian’s judgment and a native’s understanding of place, Christine Erickson analyzes the course of the Klan’s turbulent presence and lingering influence in Montana, a state with an oversize presence in the American imagination.”—Thomas R. Pegram, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Erickson makes a significant contribution to the field by linking Klan membership in Montana to traditions of fraternalism among white middle-class men. Local Klans demonstrated a kind of Protestant, white supremacist complacency, seeing the Klan as another business network. Erickson also explores anti-Klan pushback, as Butte’s immigrant Catholics decried KKK ideology, and as locals in small towns criticized Klan violence and terror in the South. Altogether, a fascinating and nuanced look at the rise and fall of the Klan in 1920s Montana.”—Dee Garceau-Hagen, author of \u003ci\u003ePortraits of Women in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Far-right extremism takes on a different character in every state and \u003ci\u003eBig Skies, White Hoods\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical piece of scholarship on the hate movements that have taken root in Montana. To understand modern political divisions, one must look to the past; Christine Erickson is a clear-eyed guide to this important history.”—Leah Sottile, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen the Moon Turns to Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eBig Skies, White Hoods\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 of white nationalism in Montana and across the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 localized—and in the forty-six Montana communities where it organized, that meant focusing less on race than on religion and class. \u003ci\u003eBig Skies, White Hoods\u003c\/i\u003e sets the historical stage for the Klan’s arrival with an account of the influence of the American Protective Association, a virulent anti-Catholic organization, and the social fallout from World War I, as seen in the emergence of the notorious Montana Council of Defense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In its organizational structure and recruiting methods, its political interests and membership, and its deep connection to white Protestant culture, the Klan in Montana echoed iterations elsewhere. But Erickson shows how the state’s weather and geography complicated the task of organizing its scattered, isolated communities, and how local ambivalence challenged the high-minded extremist ideals of the Klan’s leaders—especially Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger, whose ambitions were finally thwarted when discrepancies between the national, state, and local organizations proved intransigent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although \u003ci\u003eBig Skies, White Hoods\u003c\/i\u003e documents the ultimate downfall of the Klan in Montana, the book’s epilogue confirms that its legacy of hate continues, as other racist organizations have written their white nationalist hopes upon Montana’s history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551759003928,"sku":"9780806195377","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/big-skies-white-hoods-the-1920s-klan-and-a-history-of-hate-in-montana-hardback-9780806195377","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}