Killers of the Flower Moon

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“When you’re up”: Quoted in Irwin, Deadly Times, 331.
“Townspeople”: Lima News, Jan. 29, 1926.
“not only useless”: Edwin Brown to A. G. Ridgley, July 21, 1925, FBI.
“ablest legal talent”: Sequoyah County Democrat, April 9, 1926.
“When a small-natured”: Sargent Prentiss Freeling vertical file, OHS.
“I never killed”: Lamb, Tragedies of the Osage Hills, 174.
“not to worry, that he”: Statement by Burkhart in deposition, Feb. 5, 1927, NARA-CP.
The bureau put: One night in December 1926, Luther Bishop, a state lawman who had
assisted on the Osage murder cases, was shot and killed in his house. His wife was
charged with the murder but was later acquitted by a jury. Dee Cordry, a former police
investigator and an author, examined the case in his 2005 book, Alive If Possible—Dead
If Necessary. He suspected that Hale, in a final act of revenge, ordered the killing.
“Long face”: Report by W. A. Kitchen, March 2, 1926, FBI.
“Kelsie said”: Report by Smith, Feb. 8, 1926, FBI.
“get her out”: Grand jury testimony of Dewey Selph, NARA-FW.
“We’d better”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“Before this man”: White to Hoover, March 31, 1926, FBI.
“Whatever you do”: Report by Burger, Nov. 2, 1928, FBI.
“bumped off”: Grand jury testimony of Burkhart, NARA-FW.
“I’ll give you”: Transcript of interview with White, NMSUL.
“We think”: White to Hoover, June 26, 1926, FBI.
“intentionally guilty”: Wright to Charles Burke, June 24, 1926, NARA-CP.
“That is all”: Testimony of Mollie Burkhart before tribal attorney and other officials,
NARA-FW.
“Dear husband”: Mollie to Ernest Burkhart, Jan. 21, 1926, NARA-FW.
“It appeared”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“Bill, I have”: Ibid.
“Very few, if any”: White to Hoover, July 3, 1926, FBI.
“Seldom if ever”: Tulsa Tribune, March 13, 1926.
“new and exclusive”: Bismarck Tribune, June 17, 1926.
“Hale is a man”: Tulsa Tribune, March 13, 1926.
“Judge Not”: Quoted in Hogan, Osage Murders, 195.
“Your honor, I demand”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“traitor to his”: Tulsa Daily World, Aug. 20, 1926.
“This man is my client”: Tulsa Daily World, March 13, 1926.
“He’s not my attorney”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.