Killers of the Flower Moon

Cowboy  and Elizabeth   with    their   father, Ernest, whose   face    was

torn    out of  the photograph  years   later Credit    67

During a break in the dancing, as the sun began its descent in
the sky, Margie offered to show me around Gray Horse. The three
of us got in her car, and she began driving down a narrow, dusty
road. Not far from the pavilion, almost concealed amid the
blackjacks, was one of the few houses standing in Gray Horse.
“That’s where I grew up,” Margie said. To my surprise, it was a
small, spare, wooden house, more like a cabin than a mansion.
The Great Depression had wiped out many Osage fortunes that
had already been diminished by guardians and thieves. Margie
said that Mollie’s was no exception. The price of a barrel of oil,
which reached more than $3 during the boom years, plummeted
to 65 cents in 1931, and an annual headright payment fell to less