The Southern Magazine; California Number. Vol. II, No. 7.

First edition. Quarto. 48 pp. with numerous illustrations. Publisher's printed white wrappers. A bit of aging but overall, very good.The front cover bears an artistic rendering of "Wawona, over 6,000 Years Old; The Giant of the Pacific". The whole issue is devoted to California and includes an article on the Big Trees by Chrissie Pointer Leigh, "Where Roars the Tuolumne" by Juliette Muron Hood, Uncle Sam's Camels by Leigh again. Much of the magazine is taken up with information about Southerners living in California. The Southern Magazine was the official publication of the United Daughters of the Confederacy during the 1930s. Their male counterpart, The Confederate Veteran, shutdown with its last issue in December of 1932. In 1934 the UDC started to publish The Southern Magazine. In its issues the UDC continued its stated goal of the preservation of Southern heritage and not so blatantly its defense of the Ku Klux Klan as saviors of the South from African Americans. The UDC decided in 1936 to run a very lengthy article in The Southern Magazine justifying the Ku Klux Klan. This was their first blatant support of the Klan and the magazine folded soon after in 1937.…