Killers of the Flower Moon

“the veteran of legal battles”: Tulsa Tribune, July 29, 1926.
“Hale said to me”: Tulsa Daily World, July 31, 1926.
“I never devised”: Lamb, Tragedies of the Osage Hills, 179.
“the ruthless freebooter”: Tulsa Daily World, Aug. 19, 1926.
“The richest tribe”: Daily Journal-Capital, Aug. 20, 1926.
“five to one”: Tulsa Tribune, Aug. 21, 1926.
“Is there any”: For this quotation and other details from the scene, see Oklahoma City
Times, Aug. 25, 1926.
“I will kill”: Report by H. E. James, May 11, 1928, FBI.
“Such practices”: Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 8, 1926.
“this whole defense”: Oscar R. Luhring to Roy St. Lewis, Sept. 23, 1926, NARA-FW.
“Will you state your name”: U.S. v. John Ramsey and William K. Hale, Oct. 1926, NARA-
FW.
“Your wife is”: Ibid.
“I don’t work”: Statement by Ernest Burkhart at his 1926 trial, NMSUL.
“The time now”: Closing statement of Oscar R. Luhring, U.S. v. John Ramsey and
William K. Hale, Oct. 1926, NARA-FW.
“There never has been”: Ibid.
“Hale’s face”: Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 30, 1926.
“A jury has found”: Tulsa Daily World, Oct. 30, 1926.
“ ‘KING OF OSAGE’ ”: New York Times, Oct. 30, 1926.
“one of the greatest”: Leahy to U.S. Attorney General, Feb. 1, 1929, FBI/FOIA.
“if I ever get the Chance”: Morrison to Hale, included in State of Oklahoma v. Kelsie
Morrison, OSARM.
“watered”: Testimony of Bryan Burkhart, State of Oklahoma v. Kelsie Morrison, OSARM.
“Did you go out”: Ibid.
“Sheriffs investigated”: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov. 4, 1926.
“There is, of course”: Hoover to White, Jan. 9, 1926, FBI.
“NEVER TOLD”: Newspaper article, n.p., n.d., FBI.
“Look at her”: Memorandum by Burger, Oct. 27, 1932, FBI.
“So another”: The Lucky Strike Hour, Nov. 15, 1932, accessed from http://www.otrr.org/.
“a small way”: Hoover to White, Feb. 6, 1926, FBI/FOIA.
“We express”: Quoted in Adams, Tom White, 76.
“I hate to give up”: Mabel Walker Willebrandt to Hoover, Feb. 15, 1927, FBI/FOIA.
“I feel that”: Hoover to Willebrandt, Dec. 9, 1926, FBI/FOIA.
“giant mausoleum”: Earley, The Hot House, 30.
“Why, hello”: Daily Oklahoman, n.d., and transcript of interview with White, NMSUL.