It's the early 1920s. The Ku Klux Klan organizes in Oregon. It's target? Catholics. It's weapon? Legislation to outlaw parochial schools. Basalt City is a historical novel based on events that took place in a small town in eastern Oregon during this post-WWI period of economic hardship, labor unrest, and strife over implementation of Prohibition. A community supported by timbering, agriculture, and railroad operations, Basalt City was eager for growth, but its residents were caught up in the statewide debate over how to deal with an influx of Catholic immigrants. A catalyst in the controversy...