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

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

 
9781574417722: The Devil's Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 157441772X ISBN 13: 9781574417722
Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2019

Synopsis

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 gang of raiders who, at times, numbered up to 500 men. He joined the ranks of guerrilla fighters like Cullen Baker and Bob Lee and, with their gangs often riding together, brought chaos and death to the "Devil's Triangle," the Northeast Texas region where they created one disaster after another.

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About the Author

James M. Smallwood was the author of Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans during Reconstruction.

Kenneth W. Howell is professor of history at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas, and editor or co-editor of The Seventh Star of the Confederacy, Still the Arena of Civil War, and Single Star of the West.

Carol C. Taylor is an independent historian living in Greenville, Texas.

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Publisher
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
157441772X
ISBN 13 
9781574417722
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240