{"product_id":"the-devils-triangle-ben-bickerstaff-northeast-texans-and-the-war-of-reconstruction-9781574417722","title":"The Devil's Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574417722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55d","brand":"James M. Smallwood, Kenneth W. Howell, Carol C. Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660256931996,"sku":"9781574417722","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8977623f-c52f-48c7-a5ae-e1a6467f0d25.jpg?v=1603896428","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-devils-triangle-ben-bickerstaff-northeast-texans-and-the-war-of-reconstruction-9781574417722","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}