Killers of the Flower Moon

didn’t go to prison,” Webb said. Mary Jo Webb Credit 73 ...

The open prairie north of Pawhuska Credit 74 In December 1926, Peace suspected that his wife, who ...

arranged it so that one of them became the administrator of Rita Smith’s invaluable estate. The doctor ...

On February 23, 1927, weeks after Paul Peace vowed to disinherit and divorce the wife he suspected ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to all the people who contributed to this project, and none more so than ...

The FBI historian John F. Fox was a tremendous and invaluable resource. So was Dee Cordry, a former ...

of his aunts, Martha Key and Rubyane Surritte. They knew Ernest, and Key, who has sadly since died, had know ...

and was a wonderful traveling companion. Warren Cohen, Elon Green, and David Greenberg are great journalists and ...

without the remarkable team at Doubleday, including Todd Doughty, Suzanne Herz, John Fontana, Maria ...

A NOTE ON THE SOURCES This book is based extensively on primary and unpublished materials. They ...

The writers Dennis McAuliffe, Lawrence Hogan, Dee Cordry, and the late Fred Grove had conducted their ...

ARCHIVAL AND UNPUBLISHED SOURCES Comstock Family Papers, private collection of Homer Fincannon FBI Federal Bureau of ...

UOWHC University of Oklahoma Western History Collections Vaughan Family Papers, private collection of Martha and Melv ...

NOTES 1: THE VANISHING In April, millions: For more information on the Osage’s notion of the flower-killing moon, se ...

from local newspapers and from private detectives and FBI reports at the National Archives. Genial and witty: It s ...

“TWO SEPARATE MURDER”: Pawhuska Daily Capital, May 28, 1921. “set adrift”: Louis F. Burns, History of ...

4: UNDERGROUND RESERVATION The money had: In describing the history of the Osage, I benefited from several exce ...

“His ears are closed”: Mathews, Wah’kon-Tah, 311. “A RACE FOR LAND”: Daily Oklahoma State Capital, ...

“General suspicion”: Ibid. “Consequently I left”: Ibid. “The watchful Detective”: Pinkerton’s National Detectiv ...

“I understand”: Quoted in McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal, 113. “Veterans of”: Pawhuska Daily Capital ...