"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 2017"--Title page verso. "Excerpt from The Wager copyright ♭2023 by David Grann"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page 359-page 373).
Contents:
Selected bibliography. Blood cries out -- 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in two worlds -- The lost manuscript -- Blood cries out -- Acknowledgments -- A note on the sources -- Archival and unpublished sources -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.
Summary:
"In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were the members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffered cars and lived in mansions. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed. Mollie Burkhart watched as her family became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. Other Osage were also dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who investigated the crimes were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the case was taken up by the newly created FBI and its young, secretive director, J. Edgar Hoover. Struggling to crack the mystery, Hoover turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White, who put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent. They infiltrated this last remnant of the Wild West, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history"-page 4 of cover. 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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