Killers of the Flower Moon

upon becoming a lawman: “Get all the evidence you can, son. Then put yourself in the criminal’s place. ...

the sergeant paused at a store to get provisions. They tied up their horses and were heading insid ...

A group of Texas lawmen that includes Tom White (No. 12) and his three brothers, Doc (No. 6), Dudley ...

During his time as a Ranger, Tom investigated several murders. Tom’s brother Doc recalled, “We had ...

and one January morning in 1909 N. P. Thomas was sitting in the county prosecutor’s office when the deputy leve ...

two sons was born. Tom became a railroad detective, and the steady wage made it possible to ...

Tom’s brother Dudley Credit 45 Tom was overcome by the news; his brother—who was married and had three children ...

JOHN DUDLEY WHITE, SR HDQTRS CO TEXAS RANGERS KILLED IN LINE OF DUTY... JULY 12, 1918 Two weeks after the ...

14 DYING WORDS In September 1925, as White tried to determine what secrets William Hale and his nephews ...

questioned these men. According to a transcript of these interrogations, David Shoun acknowledged that h ...

“He said they were the only two enemies he knew of.” The Shouns were close to Hale and the Burkharts, ...

enough to make such a decision. “Did he know what he was signing?” “I suppose he did; he was suppo ...

Osage estates were typically among the most prominent white citizens: businessmen and ranchers and l ...

The Osage chief Bacon Rind protested that “everybody wants to get in here and get some of this money ...

was brought before a county judge, only to be ignored. “There is no hope of justice so long as thes ...

15 THE HIDDEN FACE One day that September, the undercover operative who was pretending to be an insurance sales ...

keg.” Hale had promised to pay an extra premium on such a policy, and the salesman had responded, “Well, ...

seem regular.” Undeterred, Hale approached a second insurance company. The application asked if Roan ...

that somebody had replaced the u with an a, and the e with a y so that the date read “Jany.” W ...

screen” for the real murderers. And the person who seemed most intent on framing Bunch was the King of the Osage ...