When oil was discovered underneath their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Indians became the wealthiest people per capita in the world. Many lived in opulent mansions, drove automobiles and kept servants. But then, during the 1920s, they begin to die off at an alarming rate. Mollie Burkhart, one wealthy Osage woman, became the last living member of her family after her mother and three sisters were murdered. In this gripping account, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of


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