Killers of the Flower Moon

getaway cars and had inherited from Jesse James the title of the region’s most infamous outlaw. The Ariz ...

Al Spencer Gang members jokingly hold up others in their crew. Credit 10 A more unnerving theory about ...

Kansas for check forgery sent a letter to Sheriff Freas claiming that he had information concerning Anna’s mur ...

three in the morning, the attorney parked his Model T at the ranch and went to sleep in the car. Before ...

unknown”—the same finding as delivered in the Whitehorn inquest. The justice locked away in his offic ...

the matter himself. Like Mollie, he was struck by the peculiar vagueness of Lizzie’s sickness; no ...

4 UNDERGROUND RESERVATION The money had come suddenly, swiftly, madly. Mollie had been ten years ...

But within four years Jefferson had compelled the Osage to relinquish their territory between the ...

Affairs agent would later describe her as “industrious” and a “person of good character.” Twice a y ...

they were under siege from settlers. Among them was the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who ...

man cannot put iron thing in ground here. White man will not come to this land. There are many hill ...

An Osage camp on the new reservation Credit 11 Although the Osage still went on buffalo hunts, they ...

owed the tribe annuity payments for the sale of its Kansas land but refused to distribute them until able-bo ...

The Osage chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah Credit 12 As the commissioner tried to leave, Wah-Ti-An-Kah blocked his path t ...

after he and the delegation pressed their case, the commissioner agreed to end the ration policy. Wah-Ti ...

new item on a ledger. One day, he said, a trader began to refer to Ne-kah-e-se-y as Jimmy. Soon other ...

Mollie’s father (right) in front of Florer’s trading store Credit 14 In 1894, when Mollie was seven, her p ...

In front of her, the prairie stretched to the horizon like an ancient seabed. There were no settlements, ...

Mollie had reached Pawhuska. Although the reservation’s capital then seemed a small, squalid place—a “ ...

...It is the women who cling most tenaciously to heathen rites and superstitions, and perpetuate them by ...