Killers of the flower moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann

Author: Grann, David
Published: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
Copyright Date: ©2017
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Description: x, 377, 12 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

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Contents

Chronicle One: The marked woman : The vanishing -- An act of God or man? -- King of the Osage Hills -- Underground reservation -- The devil's disciples -- Million dollar elm -- This thing of darkness -- Chronicle Two: The evidence man : Department of easy virtue -- The undercover cowboys -- Eliminating the impossible -- The third man -- A wilderness of mirrors -- A hangman's son -- Dying words -- The hidden face -- For the betterment of the Bureau -- The quick-draw artist, the yegg, and the soup man -- The state of the game -- A traitor to his blood -- So help you God! -- The hot house -- Chronicle Three: The reporter : Ghostlands -- A case not closed -- Standing in two worlds -- The lost manuscript -- Blood cries out.

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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

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0307742482 (paperback)
9780307742483 (paperback)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373).

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