Mrs. Cook and the Klan

Mrs. Cook and the Klan

Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America's Heartland

Chorneau, Tom

University of Nebraska Press

03/2025

276

Mole

9781496235848

15 a 20 dias

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Hawkeyes from Dixie
2. The Bridge at Davenport
3. The Witches of Temperance
4. A Schoolhouse on Every Hilltop and No Saloon in the Valley
5. The Martyr of Sioux City
6. Oily Tongued Sharpers and Swindlers
7. The Mulct Law
8. God Hates the Four-Flusher
9. A Kill Fee
10. The Suffragists
11. Last Call in Marshalltown
12. The Hyphenated Americans
13. Wet to Dry Again
14. The Hangings at Camp Dodge
15. Shootout at the Carbarn Cafe
16. America Is for Americans
17. Comes a Killer
18. The Investigation
19. The Prime Suspects
20. Who Killed Mrs. Cook?
Notes
Index

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true crime; American History; Iowa true crime; Myrtle Underwood Cook; bootlegging; temperance; temperance unions; Ku Klux Klan; unsolved murder; Iowa history; organized crime; prohibition; Iowa folklore; Benton County; Women's Christian Temperance Union; Legal History; Iowa racial history; Iowa Black Codes; John Looney; Anti-Saloon League; ociology; politics; discrimination history; KKK; Iowa bootlegging; Iowa gangs; unsolved mystery; heartland mystery; heartland crime