Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America's Heartland

by Tom Chorneau

On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small farming town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her parlor window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times. The next day her funeral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496235843
• ISBN13: 9781496235848
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 272 Pages