Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grann, David (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Doubleday, [2017]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation > Case studies. Osage Indians > Crimes against > Case studies. Murder > Oklahoma > Osage County > Case studies. Homicide investigation > Oklahoma > Osage County > Case studies. HISTORY / Native American. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. TRUE CRIME / Murder. Osage County (Okla.) > History > 20th century. True crime stories.

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.