Though no records exist of the KKK in Waco in the 1860s, this KKK dollar comes from De Soto, eighty miles north of Waco. But Waco itself was undeniably immersed in a vigilante culture of lynching and mob violence. In fact, over fifty incidents of mob violence occurred in Waco between 1865 and 1900 alone. Many of these incidents involved whitecapping, defined as white-against-black crime, a term that originated from the white hoods of the KKK. A culture conducive to prejudice and racial violence already had a hold on the town.