The Ku Klux Klan in South Dakota by Arley Kenneth Fadness 

In the 1920s, a reborn Ku Klux Klan slithered into South Dakota. Bold at times, the group intimidated citizens in every county. KKK anti-Catholic sentiment resulted in the murder of Father Arthur Belknap of Lead. Idealized Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, operated as a white supremacist and KKK leader. In 1925, animosity between the KKK and Fort Meade soldiers came to a clash one night in Sturgis. The clatter of two borrowed .30-caliber Browning cooled machine guns split the air and over the heads of Klan gathering across the valley

Paperback 

185 pages 

ISNB 978-1-4671-5424-6