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Killers of the Flower Moon [book discussion kit] : [a talk tote for book discussion groups] etc. : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Title:
Killers of the Flower Moon [book discussion kit] : [a talk tote for book discussion groups] etc. : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Author:
Grann, David, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Description:
x, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. + resource guide + black tote.
General Note:
12 items in black tote bag + resource guide.
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.
Abstract:
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.