Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
Published by Simon & Schuster
ISBN 9781398513341
$24.99
That unholiest of trinities – oil, money and murder – are reprised in this painstakingly investigated and riveting account by an award-winning journalist and author, recently released as a film. Oklahoma in the 1920s sees the Osage Indian nation as the wealthiest in the world by some measures, benefitting from the oil headleases held in the rocky, unpromising wasteland they had been displaced to, having been forced from their own lands. The great writer of America’s Midwest, Willa Cather, described such places as ‘outside man’s jurisdiction’, as without shred or vestige of humanity. And so it
