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[Page 2] ALSO BY DAVID GRANN The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession [Page 3] Credit 1 [Page 5] Copyright © 2017 by David Grann All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. www.doubleday.com DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Red Hen Press for permission to reprint an excerpt of “Wi’-gi-e” from Bestiary by Elisa Paschen, copyright © 2009 by Elisa Paschen. Reprinted by permission of Red Hen Press. Endpaper map designed by Jeffrey L. Ward Cover design by John Fontana Cover images: (background sky) © Richard Smith / Alamy; (oil rig) © Oscar Williams / Dreamstime.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Grann, David, author. Title: Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI / David Grann. Description: New York : Doubleday, [2016] Identifiers: LCCN 2016021407 (print) | LCCN 2016033222 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385534246 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385534253 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385542487 (open market) Subjects: LCSH: Osage Indians—Crimes against—Case studies. | Murder—Oklahoma— Osage County—Case studies. | Homicide investigation—Oklahoma—Osage County—Case studies. | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation—Case studies. | Osage County (Okla.)—History—20th century. Classification: LCC E99.O8 G675 2016 (print) | LCC E99.O8 (ebook) | DDC 976.6004/975254—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016021407 Ebook ISBN 9780385534253 v4.1 a [Page 6] For my mom and dad [Page 7] CONTENTS Cover Also by David Grann Title Page Copyright Dedication CHRONICLE ONE: THE MARKED WOMAN 1 The Vanishing 2 An Act of God or Man? 3 King of the Osage Hills 4 Underground Reservation 5 The Devil’s Disciples 6 Million Dollar Elm 7 This Thing of Darkness CHRONICLE TWO: THE EVIDENCE MAN 8 Department of Easy Virtue 9 The Undercover Cowboys 10 Eliminating the Impossible 11 The Third Man 12 A Wilderness of Mirrors [Page 8] 13 A Hangman’s Son 14 Dying Words 15 The Hidden Face 16 For the Betterment of the Bureau 17 The Quick-Draw Artist, the Yegg, and the Soup Man 18 The State of the Game 19 A Traitor to His Blood 20 So Help You God! 21 The Hot House CHRONICLE THREE: THE REPORTER 22 Ghostlands 23 A Case Not Closed 24 Standing in Two Worlds 25 The Lost Manuscript 26 Blood Cries Out Acknowledgments A Note on the Sources Archival and Unpublished Sources Notes Selected Bibliography Illustration Credits About the Author