As towns in northeastern Montana approach their centennials, The Red Corner chronicles the events of the teens and 1920s that left a permanent mark on the region.
Sheridan County was the site of an armed robbery of $100,000 from the county treasury, a Young Communist camp, an adolescent's Bolshevik funeral, and surveillance by FBI agents who pursued some radical leaders even into the 1960s.
The book profiles several influential Communists including a colorful newspaper editor who was electe.
Montana Historical Society Press Red corner: the rise and fall of communism in northeastern montana, paperback/verlaine mcdonald
