Killers of the Flower Moon

Cowboy and Elizabeth with their father, Ernest, whose face was torn out of the photograph years later Credit ...

than $800. The following year, the Literary Digest published an article headlined OSAGE OIL WEALTH FADI ...

As we drove through Gray Horse, we came upon a clearing in the woods, where there was an old cemetery. ...

The graves of Mollie and her murdered family members Credit 68 As Margie and her husband and I continued across th ...

“Wi’-gi-e,” which means “prayer” in Osage. Narrated from Mollie Burkhart’s point of view, the poem is a ...

oblivion. Year by year, its population had shrunk; now it was fewer than fourteen hundred. The main s ...

For a while, we sat in the car in the darkness, trying to comprehend what could not be comprehe ...

23 A CASE NOT CLOSED History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish misst ...

away scot-free. I could not find any new leads on the McBride case, but one day when I was doing rese ...

certificate, and an informant’s statement to the FBI that Vaughan, shortly before being killed, had mentio ...

threat that if he and the family pressed the matter any further they’d all end up like W. W. Vaughan. ...

disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars. Within these voluminous files, I hoped ...

widow with ten children?” Martha had said to me. As I reviewed various records at the National Archives ...

little unusual.” “It is the way we have always handled it.” At the archive in Fort Worth, I pulled reco ...

his men were deeply suspicious of Burt. In a second report that I found in the bureau files, agents descri ...

but also Burt in the murder plots. The theory of Burt’s involvement in the murder of Bigheart and Vaughan, ...

to Kansas that same year. When I finished going through all the details, Martha fell silent, then ...

24 STANDING IN TWO WORLDS One night in May 2013, the Constantine Theater, in Pawhuska, was schedu ...

The courthouse where Ernest Burkhart was tried still looms over Pawhuska. Credit 69 The auditorium was crowded, ...

interrupted by the sounds of an explosion. The music and the dancing became mournful as a succession ...