Killers of the Flower Moon

thoroughly professional about his job. He is a serious, pleasant man, and he has trained himself to control ...

Hoover on his balcony, high and distant and quiet, watching with his misty kingdom behind him, going on ...

J. Edgar Hoover Credit 61 In the late 1950s, White learned that Hollywood was about to shoot a movie, Th ...

record the crimes against the Osage and wanted to make sure that the agents who had worked with him ...

White recognized that he wasn’t much of a writer, and by 1958 he had teamed up with Fred Grove, an a ...

Tom White Credit 62 White’s body was beginning to fail him. He had arthritis. He tripped walking (walking! ...

will improve so that he can go to Dallas the last of October to attend the National Convention of Ex-FBI A ...

in these and other historical records, something that White himself had missed. There was another layer t ...

CHRONICLE THREE THE REPORTER We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and dr ...

22 GHOSTLANDS So much is gone now. Gone are the big petroleum companies and the forests of derricks ...

his people, they had risen “from the ashes of their past.” A now shuttered bar in Ralston, the town where ...

Corn. A woman in her seventies, with a broad face and short graying hair, she had a gentle, schol ...

to be buried here.” She called the Osage chief, and Anna’s skull was retrieved and, at a quiet ceremony, in ...

Over several weekends each June, the Osage hold their ceremonial dances, I’n-Lon-Schka. These ...

Mohawk. At the sound of the drumming and singing, these dancers stepped in a counterclockwise cir ...

Ernest Burkhart. Cowboy and his sister, Elizabeth, also now dead, had witnessed the Reign of Terror from inside ...

Margie Burkhart, the granddaughter of Mollie and Ernest Credit 65 After Mollie divorced Ernest, she lived with ...

murder case in the history of the Southwest—the wholesale slaying of Osage Indians for their oil headr ...

Stooped and with thinning hair, Ernest went back to Osage County, where at first he stayed with h ...

Ernest Burkhart Credit 66 ...