Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Butte,
Montana Records
Dates:
1916-1931 ( inclusive )
1924-1928 ( inclusive )
Quantity:
2 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Collection Number:
Ms 131
Summary:
Records created by or received by the
Kontinental Klan, No. 30 of the Ku Klux Klan, in Butte, Montana. The collection
includes correspondence, publications of the Klan, and financial, legal,
membership, and organizational records.
Repository:
Eastern Washington State Historical
Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives
2316 W. First Avenue Spokane, WA 99201 Phone: (509) 363-5313 Fax: (509) 363-5303 Email: archives@northwestmuseum.org
Languages:
Materials are
in English
Sponsor:
Funding for encoding this finding
aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Historical Note
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan swept the United States in the 1920s,
and the Pacific Northwest was no exception. Thousands of local men and women
joined the Klan during this period, drawn by the moral platform ostensibly
supported by the Klan. The announced enemies were vice and corruption, but
their targets were Blacks, Catholics, Jews, and the foreign-born.
Qualifications for membership included being “native born, white, Protestant,
Gentile, and an American citizen."
The national organization of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was
organized in 1915 at Stone Mountain, Georgia. The founders adopted many of the
trappings of the nineteenth-century Klan, including exotic titles, white robes
and hoods, and cross burning. Klan organizations around the country displayed a
good deal of regional diversity, and Klan activity and influence also varied
among states in the same region. The Klans in the Pacific Northwest were never
as violent as those in the South or Midwest. Also, Montana and Washington Klans
never enjoyed the membership numbers or political power that the Oregon Klan
did. Estimates of Montana Klan membership, at its height in the mid-1920s, are
a bit more than 5,000.
The Kontinental Klan was organized in Butte, Montana, in 1923. It was
one of forty-some Klans or chapters in Montana. Butte was considered to be “the
worst place in the State of Montana, so far as alienism and Catholicism are
concerned,” according to Montana Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
Klan membership experienced a sharp decline in the late 1920s. The
Klans in the Pacific Northwest, again, were no exception to the national trend.
The entire Butte membership appears to have been transferred to another Klan in
September and October, 1929, although correspondence of the last Kligrapp
continues through 1930. Records from the Montana state organization continue
through 1931.
Content Description
This collection consists of materials created by or received by the
Kontinental Klan, No. 30, in Butte, Montana.
Use of the Collection
Alternative Forms Available :
Microfilm copies are available at the Joel E. Ferris Research Library
and Archives and at the Montana State Historical Society.
Restrictions on Access :
Collection is not restricted.
Restrictions on Use :
Collection is open for use.
Preferred Citation :
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Butte, MT Records (Ms 131), Eastern
Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture,
Spokane, WA.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The collection is organized into the following series:
Correspondence
Financial Records
Legal Records
Membership Records
Organizational Records, including minutes
Publications and other printed materials
Miscellany
Newspaper Clippings
Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Acquisition Information :
Purchased by Edward W. Nolan for EWSHS.
Processing Note :
Processed to the file folder level.
Bibliography :
Holstine, Craig. "Marching as to War: the Ku Klux Klan in Eastern
Washington in the 1920's" (Paper presented at the Pacific Northwest History
Conference, Helena, Montana, 17 May 1985).
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Correspondence, 1923-1930, (bulk
1927-1928)
Incoming and outgoing correspondence of the various officers of
the Kontinental Klan.
Each office is followed by the name of the person who held the
office and for what years.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Exalted Cyclops (John S. Kula,
1923-1924)
Correspondents include Charles Steele and Grand Dragon Lewis
Terwilliger, including “Official Document No. 1” announcing the establishment
of the Realm of Montana.
1923-1924
1/2
Exalted Cyclops (John C. Martin,
1924-1926)
Three letters, undated, allowing items to be removed from the
“club.” In two letters the Klan is referred to as the Butte Men’s Literary
Club, a name they used to hide their identity when renting meeting space.
undated
1/3
Exalted Cyclops (Walter Aitken,
1927-1928)
Correspondents include C. U. Brown from the Jefferson Klan in
Whitehall, Montana, re allowing women to use men’s
robes for a Klan parade in Whitehall; Imperial Klaliff H.R. Ramsey; Jack
Stewart re nominations for school trustee in
Butte; and Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
1927-1928
1/4
Kligrapp (W. Grant Hoage, April
1923-January 1924)
Correspondents include Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans and Grand
Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
1923
1/5
Kligrapp, Acting (Walter R.
Olsen, February-May 1924)
Correspondents include Imperial Klazik Brown Harwood; Grand
Dragon Lewis Terwilliger; Stephen Tighe from the Roundup, Montana Klan
re Royal Riders of the Red Robe.
1924 March-June
1/6
Kligrapp (W. Grant Hoage, June
1924)
Correspondents include Imperial Kligrapp H.R. Ramsey and Grand
Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
1924 June
1/7
Kligrapp (Floyd F. Johnson, July
1924-January 1925)
Correspondents include Richard S. Akers, from the Wheatland Klan
in Harlowton, Montana; William W. Casper, editor of
The Montana Klansman; Acting Grand
Dragon Don C. Evans; Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans; E.E. Hoge and L. D. Smith,
both from the Baker, Oregon Klan; and Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
1924-1925
1/8
Kligrapp (James A. Bray,
January-August 1925)
Correspondents include C. H. Barker from the Kalispell, Montana,
Klan; Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans; the Pythian Castle Association
re payment of rent by the “Butte Men’s Literary
Club”; and Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
1925
1/9
Kligrapp (Carl A. Fuehr, August
1925-September 1927)
Correspondents include F. E. Duvall, from Missoula, Montana
re the Provincial Picnic; Imperial Wizard H. W.
Evans; Imperial Klazik H. K. Ramsey; Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger; and the
Imperial Kligrapp re a new policy on Junior Ku
Klux Klan membership fees.
1925-1927
1/10
Kligrapp (Albert W. Jones,
September 1927-[1930])
Correspondents include C. U. Brown from the Jefferson Klan in
Whitehall, Montana; Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans; former member J. A. Orrell,
writing from California; Mrs. Clare Rawlings of Butte requesting help in
regaining custody of her son, who was adopted; Carl E. Spetz from the Jefferson
Klan in Whitehall, Montana re joint meetings of
the two Klans; Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger; and several delinquent members
re reinstatement.
1927
1/11
Kligrapp (Albert W. Jones,
1927-[1930])
Correspondents include C. U. Brown from the Jefferson Klan in
Whitehall, Montana re joint meetings of the two
Klans; Mrs. D. Cohn of Butte; Ed Davis of Butte re
the Klan’s opinion of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and becoming
a member of the Klan; Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans; W. J. Sullivan, chairman of
the Butte July 4th Parade, requesting permission for the Klan to be included in
the parade; Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger, including a “Fiery Summons” flyer
re a ban on wearing a mask or visor on helmets;
John Thompson from the Bozeman, Montana Klan; and a response to a
letter-to-the-editor re the Catholic Church.
1928 January-June
1/12
Kligrapp (Albert W. Jones,
1927-[1930])
Correspondents include C. U. Brown from the Jefferson Klan in
Whitehall, Montana re joint meetings of the two
Klans; Arizona Grand Dragon John Perry Dunaway; member Norman Le Fever, who
moved to Arizona; C.T. Godwin from the Baker, Oregon, Klan
re a prospective member; H.A. Johnson from the
Helena, Montana Klan; Carl E. Spetz from the Jefferson Klan in Whitehall,
Montana; Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger; Harry M. Watson from the Deer Lodge,
Montana Klan; and letters re bringing in U.S.
Marshall deputies to help supervise the election in Butte.
1928 July-December
1/13
Kligrapp (Albert W. Jones,
1927-[1930])
Correspondents include C. U. Brown from the Jefferson, Klan in
Whitehall, Montana; Mrs. D. Cohn of Butte, including a “souvenir” anti-Al Smith
card; Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans; Silver Bow County Attorney Harrison J.
Freebourn re the Klan’s stand for law enforcement;
G. H. Hinds from the Spokane, Washington Klan re
E. B. Craney; Jones’s mother, Velinda Jones, thanking “Albert’s friends” for
sending flowers; a letter from member James L. Parker from Galen, Montana [the
state tuberculosis sanitarium] thanking Jones for sending a box of cigars;
Judge E. B. Quackenbush, Washington Grand Dragon; Imperial Klaliff H. K.
Ramsey; and Montana Grand Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
1929
1/14
Kligrapp (Albert W. Jones,
1927-[1930])
Correspondents include Imperial Klaliff H. K. Ramsey and Grand
Dragon Lewis Terwilliger.
1930
1/15
Corresponding Secretary [Butte
Women of the Ku Klux Klan?]
Letter to Mrs. D. Cohn, from Inez H. Keppner, Corresponding
Secretary, re a letter written by Mrs. Cohn on the
correct use of the flag, and a carbon typescript copy.
The Financial Records series consists of an account book, bank
records (bank statements, cancelled checks, deposit slips, and savings account
passbooks), a cash book, several financial reports, an inventory, invoices, one
page from a ledger, orders for general supplies and for robes, receipts, and
warrants. The bank statements, cancelled checks, receipts, and warrants are
missing for 1927.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box/Folder
1/16
Account book: Klabee
July 6, 1924-April 13, 1926; October 27, 1927; shows amounts in
the General Fund and Special Fund, and orders paid.
1924-1927
Bank records
Bank statements, deposit slips, invoices, and receipts arranged
chronologically.Cancelled checks arranged numerically by check number.
Box/Folder
1/17
Bank statements
1924
1/18
Bank statements
1925
1/19
Bank statements
1926
1/20
Bank statements
1928
1/21
Cancelled checks
1923
1/22
Cancelled checks
1924
1/23
Cancelled checks
1925
1/24
Cancelled checks
1926
1/25
Cancelled checks
1928
1/26
Deposit slips
1923
1/27
Deposit slips
1924
1/28
Deposit slip
1927
1/29
Deposit slips
1928
1/30
Passbooks for bank savings
account.
October 24, 1923-October 24, 1924; October 27, 1927-September
14, 1928
1923-1928
1/31
Cash book: Kligrapp
April 27, 1923-June 8, 1926; shows dates meetings were held,
amounts collected for Klan dues, the special fund (mostly for robes), and
Klectokon (initiation) fees, and amount paid to the Klabee.
1923-1926
Financial Reports
Box/Folder
1/32
Grand Dragon of the Realm of
Montana
September 1, 1924; September 1, 1925; June 1, 1928; October 1,
1929 [a copy was sent to each Klan in Montana].
1924-1929
1/33
Financial report: “Klan K-Duo
Financial Report”
Form reporting total amount collected from applicants and
total amount remitted for the week ending May 16, 1925.
1925
1/34
Inventory
Office items as of June 30, 1925
1925
Invoices
Box/Folder
1/35
Invoices
1923
1/36
Invoices
1924
1/37
Invoices
1925
1/38
Invoices
1926
1/39
Invoices
1927
1/40
Invoices
1928
1/41
Invoices
1929
1/42
Ledger
One page from a ledger showing debits and credits for January
20-July 28, 1925 [warrants listed correspond to the warrants in Folder 53].
1925
Orders
Box/Folder
1/43
General supplies
Order forms ordering Klan materials from the national
organization, October 9, 1924-April 14, 1925; June 28-October 15, 1928.
1924-1928
1/44
Robes
Order forms and stubs; a few order forms give robe and hat
measurements, the stubs show that robe fees had been paid.
1924-1925
1/45
Robes
Order forms for robes and helmets, sent to the national
organization, March 4, 1924-January 11, 1926.
Two surety bonds for the Klabee (treasurer) and the Kligrapp
(secretary) compose the Legal Records series. The national organization
required these two officers to be bonded.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Surety bonds
Box/Folder
1/55
Klabee
Surety bond for Klabee Charles Steele [the national
organization required individual Klan officers to be bonded].
The Membership Records series consists of applications for
membership, dues stubs, membership reports, lists of members, a “Membership and
Dues Record” book, membership record cards, and member transfers. The major
listing of members is the “Membership and Dues Record,” although after a
certain point new members do not seem to have been added. The membership record
cards is the major listing of members after that point. A great deal of
membership information also may be found in the correspondence files and in the
minutes.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Applications for
membership
Box/Folder
1/57
K-Duo
Two applications: Albert W. Jones and Charles Lanterman.
1928
1/58
K-Uno
One application: John Barney Kautzman.
1925
1/59
K-Uno
Two applications: Isaac A. Laird and Albert W. Jones.
1926
1/60
K-Uno
Three applications: Chester C. Cavanaugh, Charles Mitchell,
and George R. Mattics.
1927
1/61
K-Uno
Ten applications: Donald C. Stewart, Willis D. Wayman, R.R.
Percival, Luther E. Kelley, S. R. Cook, Edgar B. Horton, Harry Bennetts,
Charles A. Anderson, Ernest John Hoskin, and William John Trewhella.
1928
1/62
K-Uno
One application: Roy G. Williams.
1929
Box/Folder
1/63
Application reports:
K-Duo
Application report, [1924], and for the week ending May 16,
1925, for Klan members applying for membership in the Order of Knights Kamellia
or K-Duo.
1924-1925
Dues stubs
Box/Folder
1/64
K-Trio
Dues stubs, with several membership cards still attached;
arranged chronologically by date dues were paid.
1928
1/65
K-Uno
Dues stubs, with several membership cards still attached;
arranged chronologically by date dues were paid.
1926
1/66
K-Uno
Dues stubs, with several membership cards still attached;
arranged chronologically by date dues were paid.
1927
1/67
K-Uno
Dues stubs, with several membership cards still attached;
arranged chronologically by date dues were paid.
1928
1/68
K-Uno
Dues stubs, with several membership cards still attached;
arranged chronologically by date dues were paid.
1929
“Kligrapp’s Quarterly
Report”
Box/Folder
1/69
“Kligrapp’s Quarterly Report”
[on membership]
Report to the state headquarters; shows number of new members,
number in good standing, and numbers initiated, reinstated, suspended,
transferred, died, or banished, and “taxes” collected; 3rd and 4th quarters
have attachments, which include the names of new, reinstated, and suspended
members.
1924
1/70
“Kligrapp’s Quarterly Report”
[on membership]
4th quarter report is missing; the other three quarters have
attachments, which include the names of new, reinstated, and suspended
members.
1925
1/71
“Kligrapp’s Quarterly Report”
[on membership]
1926
1/72
“Kligrapp’s Quarterly Report”
[on membership]
1927
1/73
“Kligrapp’s Quarterly Report”
[on membership]
3rd and 4th quarters include names of reinstated and suspended
members.
1928
1/74
“Kligrapp’s Quarterly Report”
[on membership]
4th quarter report is missing; the other three quarters
include names of naturalized, reinstated, and suspended members.
1929
1/75
Lapsed, suspended, and reinstated
members, and resignations
Folder includes cards on individual members and lists; the
numbers on the cards and lists do not match the member numbers used in the
“Membership and Dues Record” in Folder 78.
1923-1926
List of Members
Box/Folder
1/76
List of members
Photocopy list of members as of June 30, 1924.
1924
1/77
List of members:
K-Trio
Two lists of members in 1928.
1928
1/78
“Membership and Dues Record”
book
Arranged alphabetically by last name of member, includes
member’s number, year “naturalized” (joined), age, color of hair and eyes,
height and weight, marital status, and dues paid.
1923-1928
Membership record
cards
Box/Folder
2/79
Membership record
cards
Arranged alphabetically by last name of the member, includes
name, home address, employer, business address, signatures of three endorsers,
the three meeting dates at which the person’s name was read, and whether he was
elected or rejected [several were “objected to” and did not become
members].
1925-1928
2/80
Membership record cards:
K-Duo
Fancy card for the member to carry.
1924
2/81
“Petition for Citizenship in the
Invisible Empire” of George H. Fitschen
1926
Transfers
Box/Folder
2/82
Floyd S. Cofer
“Transfer or Demit Form” and photocopy of an April 18, 1925
letter re the transfer of Cofer to Livingston.
1925
2/83
Clifton C. Dorris
“Transfer or Demit Form” and photocopy of a June 14, 1925
letter re the transfer of Dorris to Kalispell.
1925
2/84
S.J. Beach
Photocopy of a letter, August 12, 192[5] to the Kontinental
Klan Kligrapp, and a letter, August 31, 1925 from C. Linde, Kligrapp of the
Saginaw County Klan in Michigan re the transfer of
Beach to Butte.
1925
2/85
Walter R. Olsen
Letter, April 16, 1926 from E. B. Quackenbush, Washington
State Grand Dragon, to Lewis Terwilliger, requesting transfer for Olsen to
Spokane.
1926
2/86
John C. Martin
“Transfer Form” and photocopy of a June 27, 1927 letter
re the transfer of Martin to Alabama
The Organizational Records series contains bylaws and amendments,
committee records, meeting attendance lists, minutes of the state Klorero
(conventions) and of the Butte Konklaves (chapter meetings), and lists of
officers. The minutes of the konklaves contain a great deal of membership
information since the names of prospective members needed to be read to the
membership at three meetings before being accepted. The minutes, therefore,
also contain information about applicants who were rejected.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box/Folder
2/89
Bylaws and amendments
Bylaws, adopted February 1924, received by the Grand Dragon
March 1, 1924; bylaws, adopted October 10, 1927, received by the Grand Dragon
April 21, 1928; proposed amendment to the bylaws, January 25, 1928; proposed
amendments to the bylaws, March 19, 1928, returned by the Grand Dragon March 4,
1929; and proposed amendments to the bylaws, n.d.
1924-1928
2/90
“Charter Petition”
Blank copy of the form.
circa 1921
Committees
Box/Folder
2/91
Propaganda
Committee
The Committee was appointed to promote membership.
undated
2/92
Relief Committee
Recommendations: the committee was appointed to recommend
means for the relief of needy members.
1924 February 24
2/93
School Committee
Re the People’s School Party
campaign for school trustees for School District No. 1 in Butte, election of
April 7, 1928.
1928
Meeting attendance
Box/Folder
2/94
Meeting attendance
Lists, by member number, of who attended 1924-1926 meetings
for July 19, 1924-September 22, 1926.
1924-1926
2/95
Meeting attendance
Lists, by name, of officers and members who attended meetings
for July 11, 1928-May 22, 1929
1928-1929
Minutes
Box/Folder
2/96
K-Duo
1925 February 28-May 14
2/97
Klorero
The state organizational meeting held in Livingston,
September 16, 1923.
1923
2/98
Klorero
Held in Billings,
August 24, 1924.
1924
2/99
Klorero
Held in Helena,
September 6, 1925.
1925
2/100
Klorero
Held in Great Falls,
August 14, 1927.
1927
2/101
Klorero
Held in Helena,
June 16-17, 1928.
1928
2/102
Klorero
Held in Missoula,
October 20, 1929.
1929
2/103
Klorero
Held in Great Falls,
August 2, 1930.
1930
2/104
Konklaves
April 29-December 26, 1923
1923
2/105
Konklaves
January 9-December 16, 1924
1924
2/106
Konklaves
January 3-December 22, 1925
1925
2/107
Konklaves
January 12-December 24, 1926
1926
2/108
Konklaves
January 12-December 28, 1927
1927
2/109
Konklaves
January 11-December 12, 1928
1928
2/110
Konklaves
January 9-May 22, 1929
1929
2/111
Officers
Three lists of officers: one of officers serving until July 1,
1925, one of officers elected May 19, 1925, and one of the May 19 list
annotated with newer officers.
Publications purchased by or received by the Kontinental Klan.
Arranged alphabetically by publisher.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box/Folder
2/113
Bozeman Klansman:
How to Tell a Klansman: Inside Facts as I
Found Them
“Printed by a Bozeman Klansman”
undated
2/114
Carolina Citizen:
Inside Story of Mer Rouge: Newspaper
Reports Exaggerated: Whole Trouble Due to Feud Between Catholics and Ku Klux
Klan
Reprinted from the
Carolina Citizen,
January 25, 1923.
1923
2/115
Elias, Arturo M.:
Mexican People and The Church, by
Arturo M. Elias
Printed by the author
undated
2/116
Fellowship Forum:
Roman Catholic Crucifixion of William
Suizer, by Adams Alle
undated
2/117
Forum: Klan:
Defender of Americanism, by Hiram
Wesley Evans
Reprinted from
The Forum, vol. 74, no. 6 (
December 1925).
1925
2/118
Haldeman-Julius Company:
Rome or Reason, by Robert G.
Ingersoll, et al.
Little Blue Book no. 129
undated
2/119
Independent Publishing Company:
Flyers
Photocopies of flyers advertising a sacrifice sale and bargain
books, included are anti-Papal books and regular national magazines.
undated
International Protestant
Foundation, Inc.
Box/Folder
2/120
International Protestant
Foundation, Inc.:
KKKK: Why? How? What? Who? and
You
undated
2/121
International Protestant
Foundation, Inc.:
Tomorrow?
1927
2/122
International Music Company:
American Hymns
Includes Klan songs, patriotic songs, and religious hymns.
undated
2/123
J. B. Carroll Company:
Klan Oracle
Circa 1924, advertisement on back for Klan meeting in Belle
Fourche in 1925.
circa 1925
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.
Box/Folder
2/124
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Ceremonies for the Reception of Great,
Grand, and Imperial Officers
undated
2/125
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Constitution and
Laws
1921
2/126
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Constitution and
Laws
“As amended by the Imperial Klonvokation at Chicago, Ill.,
July 1928.”
1928
2/127
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.: Education.
An Historical Treatise on This Most
Important Subject From Its Inception to the Present Date, by Hiram
Wesley Evans
Reprinted from
The Kourier Magazine, vol. 7, no.
6 (
May 1931).
1931
2/128
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Funeral Services
1925
2/129
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Ideals of the Ku Klux
Klan
Includes sections on The Character of the Organization, Racial
Ideals, Citizenship Ideals, Patriotic Ideals, and Christian Ideals.
undated
2/130
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Important Imperial Edicts and
Documents, prepared by H.K. Ramsey, Imperial Klaliff
1930 March 26
2/131
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Installation
Ceremonies
1924
2/132
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Klan Answers, by H. W.
Evans
Mailed to each Klan by the Imperial Klaliff on July 23,
1929.
1929
2/133
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Klan in Action: A Manual of Leadership
for Officers of Local Klans
Mailed to each Klan by the Imperial Klaliff on July 23,
1929.
1929
2/134
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Klan Today
Includes sections on What is the Klan?, What Has the Klan
Done?, Why is the Klan Needed Today?, What is the Klan Going to Do Next?, Why
Support the Klan? Mailed to each Klan by the Imperial Klaliff on July 23,
1929.
1929
2/135
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.: “Klode card”
Songs for opening and closing meetings, plus a
“Kloxology.”
circa 1922
2/136
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Kloran [of the] Knights
Kamellia
The “Book of the Klan” for the Knights Kamellia or K-Duo
Degree; contains all the rituals and lectures.
1925
2/137
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Kloran of the Knights of the Great
Forest
The “Book of the Klan” for the Knights of the Great Forest or
K-Trio Degree; contains all the rituals and lectures.
1928
2/138
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Kloran [of the] Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan
The “Book of the Klan” or the “White Book” for the Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan or K-Uno Degree; contains all the rituals and lectures; 5th
edition, circa
1916 [the collection contains one each for the
Exalted Cyclops, the Kladd, the Klaliff, the Klexter, the Klokard, and the
Kladd; all six are 5th edition, circa
1916; since all six are exactly the same, only the
Exalted Cyclops copy was microfilmed].
1916
2/139
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Kloran [of the] Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan
The “Book of the Klan” for the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan or
K-Uno Degree; contains all the rituals and lectures; 6th edition, circa
1928.
circa 1928
2/140
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Kourier Magazine
the Klan’s monthly magazine: vol. 5, no. 5 (
April 1929); vol. 5, no. 6 (
May 1929); vol. 5, no. 7: MISSING; vol. 5, no. 8
(
July 1929); vol. 5, no. 9 (
August 1929); vol. 5, no. 10 (
September 1929)
1929
2/141
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Official Monthly
Bulletin
Issued by the Department of the Imperial Klaliff,
October 1, 1926 issue
1926
2/142
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
Proceedings of the Third Biennial
Klonvokation
Held in Washington, D.C.,
September 13-15, 1926.
1926
2/143
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Inc.:
World Court: Questions and
Answers
undated
2/144
Pillar of Fire:
Ku Klux Klan in Prophecy, by
Bishop Alma White
1925
Rail Splitter Press
Box/Folder
2/145
Rail Splitter Press:
Al Smith and the White House, by
William Lloyd Clark
Clark was the Press’s editor
1927
2/146
Rail Splitter Press:
Alter [sic] of the Prostitutes,
by Linn A. Gale
undated
2/147
Rail Splitter Press:
“Announcing Special Heflin Issue of the Rail Splitter for November”
Flyer
undated
2/148
Rail Splitter Press:
Gunpowder Plot, by B.
Reeve
undated
2/149
Rail Splitter Press:
In Prison For the Faith, by
William Lloyd Clark
1927
2/150
Rail Splitter Press:
Jew and the Gentile Girl, by
Billy Mayfield
1927
2/151
Rail Splitter Press:
Kentucky Hell, by Mrs. C. K.
Richardson and Lillie E. Burch
undated
2/152
Rail Splitter Press:
Key to Knowledge
Catalog of books for sale.
undated
2/153
Rail Splitter Press:
Life and Character of Isabella,
by Chase Roys
undated
2/154
Rail Splitter Press:
Menace of Al Smith, by William
Lloyd Clark
1927
2/155
Rail Splitter Press:
Messages of Love and Hate, by
William Lloyd Clark
1927
2/156
Rail Splitter Press:
Mexico’s Struggle for Liberty,
by Gen. Plutarco E. Calles, et al.
1928
2/157
Rail Splitter Press:
Outcome of Our American Life, by
Rev. Justin D. Fulton
undated
2/158
Rail Splitter Press:
Priest in Absolution, by William
Lloyd Clark
1927
2/159
Rail Splitter Press:
Protestan[t’]s Catechism for Young
Americans
undated
2/160
Rail Splitter Press:
Rail Splitter Book Catalogue Souvenir
Edition
undated
2/161
Rail Splitter Press:
Three Things That Never Marry
(Tract No. 20)
undated
2/162
Rail Splitter Press:
Woman’s Heroism, by William
Lloyd Clark
W. Lloyd Clark’s tribute to the work of ex-nun Neva Miller
Moss.
1927
Realm of Montana. Grand
Dragon.
Box/Folder
2/163
Realm of Montana. Grand Dragon:
Official Circular
1924
2/164
Realm of Montana. Grand Dragon:
Official Circular
1925-1926
2/165
Realm of Montana. Grand Dragon:
Official Circular
1927
2/166
Realm of Montana. Grand Dragon:
Official Circular
1928
2/167
Realm of Montana. Grand Dragon:
Official Circular
1929-1930
2/168
Realm of Montana. Grand Dragon:
Official Bulletin
Name changed, same as the “Official Circular”
1930-1931
2/169
Truth and Light Publishing House:
Immorality and Political Grafting of Roman
Catholic Priests in the Philippine Islands, Extracts from Message of the
President of the United States
[William McKinley] (transmitted to the Senate, February 25,
1901) [this is a reprint of the GPO document].
undated
United States. Government
Printing Office
Box/Folder
2/170
United States. Government
Printing Office:
Charges Radio Trust Violates Radio Law:
Text of Complaint of Radio Protective Association Before Federal Radio
Commission
Remarks of Hon. C.C. Dill of Washington in the United States
Senate.
1928 December 18
2/171
United States. Government
Printing Office:
Efforts to Involve the United States in
War with Mexico
Speech of Hon. J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama in the Senate of
the United States.
1927 March 1
Unknown Publisher
Box/Folder
2/172
Unknown publisher: Constitution
of the United States
undated
2/173
Unknown publisher:
General Information About A
Klansman
undated
2/174
Unknown publisher:
Some of the Accomplishments of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
1930
2/175
Unknown publisher:
Ten Ways to Kill an
Organization
The Miscellaneous series consists of personal papers of Kligrapps
Floyd F. Johnson and Albert W. Jones, materials from the 1928 election,
including several anti-Al Smith writings, and three snapshots of unknown men in
Klan robes.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box/Folder
2/176
Cryptogram (with
solution)
undated
2/177
“A Democratic
Catechism”
Anti-Al Smith writing in question-and-answer form.
circa 1928
2/178
Johnson, Floyd F.
Personal correspondence with Dr. L. D. Johnson of Casper,
Wyoming re Floyd Johnson’s attempts to be
appointed Butte postmaster.
1924
2/179
Jones, Albert W.
Personal papers, including a blank membership form, [1928], and
a membership card for the year ending December 11, 1928, for the Society of
Protestant Americans; and a State of Montana hunting and fishing license, 1928,
of C. S. Jones. [Albert’s father, Charles S. Jones, died May 2, 1929].
1928
2/180
La Bianco, Allan
Letter, undated, addressed to “Well Pal,” asking for help; La
Bianco is writing from jail in Havre, Montana, where he is waiting to be
deported.
undated
2/181
“National Klan Educational
Program, March-April-May-June-July, Subjects and Schedule”
The Clippings series contains clippings original to the collection
and clippings from other sources. The clippings original to the collection are
from the
Butte Post, the
Kansas City Kansan, the
Searchlight, and from an unknown
newspaper(s), probably a Butte paper. The clippings not original to the
collection are from the Montana Historical Society Library’s vertical file on
the Ku Klux Klan and from two Spokane newspapers regarding Klan happenings in
Montana.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Box/Folder
2/186
Newspaper clippings:
Butte Post
Photocopies of clippings of three letters-to-the-editor of the
Butte Post, written by Mrs. D. Cohn,
and carbon typescripts of the same letters: “Flag Day,” [1923?]; “On Mother’s
Day,” article dated May 5, 1927; “Patriot Wants Little Red School House
Represented in Great 4th of July Parade,” [1928?].
circa 1923,; 1927,; circa 1928
2/187
Newspaper clippings:
Kansas City Kansan
Photocopies of newspaper clippings: “Religious Schools Talked in
Topeka,” October 20, 1926; “My Twenty-Four Hours, Benito Mussolini,” January 6,
1927; “Klan Officers Speak,” December 11, 1927; “Ranking Mason Coming,”
December 11, 1927; “Klan in Annual Party,” December 11, 1927; “Ban on Religious
Images,” December 11, 1927.
1926-1927
2/188
Newspaper clippings: Montana
Historical Society
Photocopies of newspaper clippings from the Montana Historical
Society Library vertical file; these clippings are not original to the
collection: “Ku Klux Klan is Organizing,” August 8, 1921; “Suggestion for
Target Practice,” September 23, 1921; “Ku Klux Klan is in Montana,” November
18, 1921; “Ku Klux Klan is Threatening Mr. Rankin,” March 12, 1922; “First
Appearance of Ku Klux Klan,” July 10, 1922; “Missoula Ku Klux Klan Will Support
Laws,” November 5, 1922; “Ku Kluxers Make Second Public Appearance,” June 1,
1923; “Fiery Cross is 4th Spectacle,” July 6, 1923; “Many See Klan’s
Demonstration,” September 3, 1923; “Labor and the Ku Klux Klan,” April 18,
1924; “Independent Quits, Plant to be Moved, May 8, 1924; “Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan and Women of the Ku Klux Klan: Their Principles and Ideals,” October
12, 1924.
1921-1924
2/189
Newspaper clippings:
Searchlight
Photocopies of newspaper clippings: “Borglum and Stephenson
Attempt to Re-Awaken Sectional Prejudices, ... Stephenson of Texas and Borglum
of Connecticut Prove Klan Maxim That Neither North nor South has Monopoly of
Vice or Virtue,” May 24, 1924; “Enthusiasm is Displayed by Miami Klan,” May 24,
1924; “Klansmen Can be Depended Upon,” May 24, 1924; “Greenville Klansmen Call
on Revivalist,” May 24, 1924.
1924
2/190
Newspaper clippings: Spokane
newspapers
Photocopies of newspaper clippings from two Spokane, Washington,
newspapers, the
Spokane Chronicle and the
Spokesman-Review; these clippings
are not original to the collection: “Legislator Gets K.K.K. Letter,” January
16, 1923; “Klan Disclaims Kidnaping Man,” January 24, 1923; “Deny Missoula
Kidnaping,” January 27, 1923; “Ku Klux Invades Church,” January 29, 1923; “Ku
Klux Invades Church,” January 30, 1923; “Orders Negress to Vacate,” February 6,
1923; “Montana Klansmen Meet,” September 4, 1923; “Klansmen Stage Night
Spectacle,” September 21, 1923; “Butts to Shoot First Ku Kluxer,” October 22,
1923; “Shoot Any Ku Kluxer,” October 23, 1923; “700 Klansmen in Session,” May
24, 1924; “700 Klansmen in Session,” May 27, 1924; “Klan in Politics Rapped by
Demos,” September 11, 1924; “Montanans Repute Wheeler,” September 12, 1924;
“Democrats Hit Klan in Montana,” September 12, 1924; “Ku Klux Politics Seen in
Montana,” December 20, 1925; “Montana Klansmen Parade,” August 6, 1926;
“Montana Klan Vote Factor,” September 21, 1926; “Fiery Cross Near Billings
Blazes Way ...,“ September 24, 1928; “Billings Sees Fiery Cross,” September 24,
1928.
1923-1928
2/191
Newspaper clippings: Unknown
newspapers
Photocopies of newspaper articles from unknown, but probably
Montana, newspapers: “Berlin Catholics and Reds in Row,” [1928]; “Fabulous
Treasure Buried by Jesuits,” [1928]; Democratic and Republican tickets for
1928; Obituary of Ann Klassan, January 6, 1929, with handwritten note that Mrs.
Klassan was “a wrecker of the Klan.”
Women of the Ku Klux Klan: Lillie
B. Houghtailing’s Klan Papers from New York, 1928-1931
At the very end of the collection is a subgroup titled Women of
the Ku Klux Klan. This subgroup contains material that belonged to Lillie B.
Houghtailing, who was a Klan member in New York state. Some of the items are
specific to Mrs. Houghtailing, such as a letter and contract allowing her to be
a Local Extension Officer for the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, and her membership
cards. The Publications are general Women of the Ku Klux Klan publications.
Container(s)
Description
Dates
Correspondence
Box/Folder
2/192
Letter and contract of Mrs.
Lillie B. Houghtailing
Allowing Mrs. Houghtailing to be a Local Extension Officer for
the Women of the Ku Klux Klan in the Penn Yan, New York area.
1931
2/193
New York Grand
Dragon
Letter to Klansmen in New York State, from J. E. Galbraith,
Grand Dragon of New York.
1929 February 2
Publications
Box/Folder
2/194
Constitution and Laws of the Women of
the Ku Klux Klan
Adopted by First Imperial Klonvokation at St. Louis,
Missouri.
1927 January 6
2/195
Kloran or Ritual of the Women of the Ku
Klux Klan
Little Rock, Ark.: Imperial Headquarters [belonged to L. B.
Houghtailing].
1928
Miscellany
Box/Folder
2/196
Membership cards of Lillie
Houghtailing
An Identification Card, Second Degree, April 10, 1928; a Women
of the Ku Klux Klan card, April 28, 1928; and a membership/dues card, April 1,
1929.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Online
Computer Library Center (OCLC) WorldCat database. Researchers desiring
materials about related topics, persons, or places should search WorldCat using
these headings.
Personal Names :
Ku Klux Klan--Archives
Terwilliger, Galbraith
Corporate Names :
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Montana
Ku Klux Klan. Kontinental Klan, No.
30--Montana--Butte
