The Devil's Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction

by James Smallwood, Kenneth W. Howell, Carol C Taylor

In the Texas Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), many returning Confederate veterans organized outlaw gangs and Ku Klux Klan groups to continue the war and to take the battle to Yankee occupiers, native white Unionists, and their allies, the free people. This study of Benjamin Bickerstaff and other Northeast Texans provides a microhistory of the larger whole. Bickerstaff founded Ku Klux Klan groups in at least two Northeast Texas counties and led a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157441772X
• ISBN13: 9781574417722
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"