Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Kindle Edition

“A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”—USA Today

“A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” —The Boston Globe

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita on the planet were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was once discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one after the other, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was once shot. Another was once poisoned. And it was once just the beginning, as increasingly Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to take a look at to resolve the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and along side the Osage began to expose probably the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

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