Book Recommend – Killers of the Flower Moon
A year or so after I got the idea for The Case of The Osage Heiress, I started seeing this book everywhere. This is a very comprehensive, well-researched and captivating book about what’s called the Osage Murders, the murder of Anna Brown and her sister’s search for justice. It pulls in a lot of context […]
Osage Oil – Further Reading
One of the best resources I found for explaining exactly how the guardian system worked is actually a 40 page pamphlet available for free. Even more miraculously than it being free, it’s written quite clearly. I find a lot of sources from the time have an overwrought style that’s difficult to follow. Released in 1924 […]
Book Recommend – Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation
This was the first book I read about the Osage conspiracy, and it’s a very interesting one. It’s part personal and family memoir, part investigative journalism, and part history. The author decides to look into the mysterious suicide of his Osage grandmother, which happened in the 1920’s when his mother was just a toddler. He […]
Laurel’s Neighborhood – Greenland Hills
I got the chance to drive around the neighborhood Laurel and Tom lived in recently, and was pretty happy with what I saw. Their neighborhood has retained a lot of it’s original charming character, and the number of new giant homes was fairly low. They lived in a development called Greenland Hills, which was originally […]