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Killers of the Flower Moon [text (large print)]: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann

By: Grann, David [author]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2017]Edition: First large print editionDescription: 492 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781524755935; 1524755931Subject(s): Hale, Bill, 1874-1962 | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Case studies | Osage Indians -- Crimes against -- Case studies | Murder -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies | Homicide investigation -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies | Murder for hire -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies | Conspiracy -- Oklahoma -- Osage County -- Case studies | Osage County (Okla.) -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Large type books | True crime stories. DDC classification: 976.6004/975254
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
Summary: 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. --Publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-487)

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

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. --Publisher

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