The Resource Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI, David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI, David Grann
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 338 pages
- Note
- Maps on endpapers
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780385534246
- Label
- Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
- Title
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Title remainder
- the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
- Statement of responsibility
- David Grann
- Subject
-
- Hale, Bill, 1874-1962
- Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Murder -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Osage Indians -- Crimes against -- Case studies
- Osage County (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century
- Murder for hire -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- True crime stories
- United States -- Case studies
- Conspiracy -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E99.O8
- LC item number
- G675 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Label
- Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI, David Grann
- Note
- Maps on endpapers
- Related Subjects
-
- Hale, Bill, 1874-1962
- Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Murder -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Osage Indians -- Crimes against -- Case studies
- Osage County (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century
- Murder for hire -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- True crime stories
- United States -- Case studies
- Conspiracy -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
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- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 338 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385534246
- Lccn
- 2016021407
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)953738449
Subject
- Conspiracy -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Hale, Bill, 1874-1962
- Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Murder -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Murder for hire -- Oklahoma | Osage County -- Case studies
- Osage County (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century
- Osage Indians -- Crimes against -- Case studies
- True crime stories
- United States -- Case studies
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- The New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Nonfiction
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