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