Killers of the Flower Moon

“TWO SEPARATE MURDER”: Pawhuska Daily Capital, May 28, 1921.
“set adrift”: Louis F. Burns, History of the Osage People, 442.
“Some day”: Modesto News-Herald, Nov. 18, 1928.
So Mollie turned: My portrait of William Hale is drawn from a number of sources,
including court records, Osage oral histories, FBI files, contemporaneous newspaper
accounts, Hale’s correspondence, and my interviews with descendants.
“fight for life”: Sargent Prentiss Freeling in opening statement, U.S. v. John Ramsey and
William K. Hale, Oct. 1926, NARA-FW.
“He is the most”: Article by Merwin Eberle, “ ‘King of Osage’ Has Had Long Colorful
Career,” n.p., OHS.
“like a leashed animal”: Guthrie Leader, Jan. 5, 1926.
“high-class gentleman”: Pawnee Bill to James A. Finch, n.d., NARA-CP.
“Some did hate”: C. K. Kothmann to James A. Finch, n.d., NARA-CP.
“I couldn’t begin”: M. B. Prentiss to James A. Finch, Sept. 3, 1935, NARA-CP.
“I never had better”: Hale to Wilson Kirk, Nov. 27, 1931, ONM.
“We were mighty”: Tulsa Tribune, June 7, 1926.
“willing to do”: J. George Wright to Charles Burke, June 24, 1926, NARA-CP.
“How did she go”: Testimony of Mollie Burkhart before tribal attorney and other officials,
NARA-FW.
“When you brought”: Coroner’s inquest testimony of Bryan Burkhart, in bureau report,
Aug. 15, 1923, FBI.
“You understand”: Grand jury testimony of Ernest Burkhart, NARA-FW.
“the greatest criminal”: Boorstin, Americans, 81.
“perhaps any”: James G. Findlay to William J. Burns, April 23, 1923, FBI.
“the meanest man”: McConal, Over the Wall, 19.
“diseased mind”: Arizona Republican, Oct. 5, 1923.
“This may have”: Private detective logs included in report, July 12, 1923, FBI.
“absolutely no”: Ibid.
“Honorable Sir”: Pawhuska Daily Capital, July 29, 1921.
“ANNA BROWN”: Pawhuska Daily Capital, July 23, 1921.
“There’s a lot”: Quoted in Crockett, Serial Murderers, 352.
“If you want”: Roff, Boom Town Lawyer in the Osage, 106.
“would not lie”: Ibid., 107.
“sausage meat”: Grand jury testimony of F. S. Turton, NARA-FW.
“the hands of parties”: Pawhuska Daily Capital, May 30, 1921.
“Have pity”: Frank F. Finney, “At Home with the Osages,” Finney Papers, UOWHC.