A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

Author:Timothy Egan [Egan, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

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That same Tuesday, Stephenson’s ex-wife Nettie touched down in Indianapolis. It was pure coincidence. She had not seen him since he deserted her, leaving her with a newborn girl and no means of support in a small Oklahoma town. Ignoring his warning to never track him down, Nettie had spent a decade looking for him. Finally, with all the national press over his role in the recent election, she had traced him to Indianapolis. When Steve abandoned her, he was adrift and penniless, in debt to people he’d stiffed in towns all over the Southern Plains. Now he was lord of an empire, controlled a state, was extravagantly wealthy, and issued grand pronunciations as a venerated and mysterious presence—the Old Man. When she filed for divorce in 1917, he didn’t contest it, or make his presence known in any way. She had remarried, becoming Nettie Stephenson Brehm, and settled in Poteau, Oklahoma. Her daughter with Steve, Florence Catherine, was about to turn nine. Steve had never contributed a penny to her well-being. Nettie had come to town now to file suit in Marion County Superior Court, asking for $16,795 in child support. In her pleading, Nettie could not supply even the most basic background material on her former husband. She had no idea where he had come from, who his parents were, or whether D. C. Stephenson was even his real name.

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