Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann.
2017
E99.O8 G675 2017 (Mapit)
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann.
Author
Grann, David, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780385534246 (hardcover)
0385534248 (hardcover)
0385534248 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Doubleday, [2017]
Language
English
Description
x, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
E99.O8 G675 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
976.6004/975254
Summary
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances. In this last remnant of the Wild West -- where oilmen like J.P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the "Phantom Terror," roamed -- many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances. In this last remnant of the Wild West -- where oilmen like J.P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the "Phantom Terror," roamed -- many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Note
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336).
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Table of Contents
Chronicle one: The marked woman
The vanishing
An act of God or man?
King of the Osage Hills
Underground reservation
The devil's disciples
Million dollar elm
This thing of darkness
Chronicle two: The evidence man
Department of easy virtue
The undercover cowboys
Eliminating the impossible
The third man
A wilderness of mirrors
A hangman's son
Dying words
The hidden face
For the betterment of the Bureau
The quick-draw artist, the yegg, and the soup man
The state of the game
A traitor to his blood
So help you God!
The hot house
Chronicle three: The reporter
Ghostlands
A case not closed
Standing in two worlds
The lost manuscript
Blood cries out.
The vanishing
An act of God or man?
King of the Osage Hills
Underground reservation
The devil's disciples
Million dollar elm
This thing of darkness
Chronicle two: The evidence man
Department of easy virtue
The undercover cowboys
Eliminating the impossible
The third man
A wilderness of mirrors
A hangman's son
Dying words
The hidden face
For the betterment of the Bureau
The quick-draw artist, the yegg, and the soup man
The state of the game
A traitor to his blood
So help you God!
The hot house
Chronicle three: The reporter
Ghostlands
A case not closed
Standing in two worlds
The lost manuscript
Blood cries out.