“GREWSOME FIND ENDS”: Quoted in “The Murder of Mary Denoya-Bellieu-Lewis,”
PPL.
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“knew that was”: E. E. Shepperd to U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jan. 8, 1926, NARA-FW.
“Members of the family”: Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 25, 1926.
“drugs, opiates”: Quoted in Wilson, Underground Reservation, 144.
“one of the most beautiful”: Quoted in McAuliffe, Deaths of Sybil Bolton, 109.
“In connection with”: Bureau report titled “Murder on Indian Reservation,” Nov. 6, 1932,
FBI.
“Over the sixteen-year period”: McAuliffe, Deaths of Sybil Bolton, 251.
“I don’t know”: Ball, Osage Tribal Murders.
“There are so many”: Interview by F. G. Grimes Jr. and Edwin Brown, June 17, 1925, FBI.
“Bill, you know”: Report by Smith, Oct. 30, 1926, FBI.
“Walking through”: Robert Allen Warrior, “Review Essay: The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An
American History,” Wicazo Sa Review 11 (1995): 52.
“You should be ashamed”: McAuliffe, Deaths of Sybil Bolton, 137.
“Harry didn’t do it”: Ibid., 139.
“I did not prove”: From McAuliffe’s revised and updated edition of The Deaths of Sybil
Bolton, which was renamed Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed, and Murder on
the Osage Reservation (San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 1999), 287.
“There are men”: Quoted in Wallis, Oil Man, 152.