Killers of the Flower Moon

estate, with each tribal member receiving one allotment, while the rest of the territory would be opened ...

The land run of 1893 Credit 16 Because the Osage had purchased their land, it was harder for the government to i ...

on the Washington pulse.” The orphaned son of a white trader and a Sioux woman, Palmer had been adopted as ...

Like others on the Osage tribal roll, Mollie and her family members each received a headright—e ...

influence of the nineteenth century.” He went on, “It seemed a great adventure. My parents never saw the ch ...

locomotive were rushing by. From the hole in the ground came a rumbling, gurgling sound, and the w ...

5 THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLES Money was the one means at Mollie’s disposal that might induce the indi ...

decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments. In literature and in the popu ...

who went by the name of Pike. To preserve his cover, Pike, who smoked a corn pipe and had a smudge ...

“My name is William J. Burns, and my address is New York, London, Paris, Montreal, Chicago, San ...

The Big Hill Trading Company was run by Scott Mathis, who was a guardian of Anna and Lizzie. Credit 18 Unlike S ...

reports, only by a coded number. At the outset, operative No. 10 asked Mathis, who’d been a juror on t ...

presumably Anna, had picked up. That meant that Anna was likely still in her house at 8:30—further evide ...

slender, cigarette-smoking, shifty-looking man with rust-colored hair and flat gray eyes: Oda Brown. He was ...

The private detectives, though, struggled to corroborate the informant’s story. No one had spotted Anna ...

for sordid gain.” Mollie’s sister Rita Credit 20 But since Anna’s murder Bill had, by all appearances, vigoro ...

possibilities of the instrument in detective work,” the Literary Digest reported in 1912. “He is so ena ...

One day that summer, a stranger with a Chaplinesque mustache showed up in Gray Horse to offer his ass ...

and Anna Brown, the investigations into the cases seemed to have reached a permanent impasse. Pike, the ...

William Stepson Credit 21 By the time of Stepson’s death, scientists had devised numerous tools to detect poison ...