Further to the references noted by David Fears, (not sure if this has been posted) there is a reference to KKK in one of Tw's unsigned but attributed "Galaxy" articles headed "Inspired Humor", 19 August 1869. It reads in part ... "But with notes attached, explaining that this severely virtuous Democracy is the Democracy whose devotees plunged the nation into a monstrous civil war; burned colored orphan asylums; removed Mr. Lincoln in an abrupt and peculiarly democratic way; instituted the Klu-Klux-Klan; ran for Vice President the melancholy fragment which whiskey had left of what was once Francis P.Blair; sapped the public Treasury under Johnson ..." Ron Hohenhaus [log in to unmask] Australian Mark Twain Society Bringing together people who are interested in the life and works of Mark Twain www.marktwain.com.au