This is a story that I was not familiar with. I am adding the book to my reading list.
Oklahoma was set aside as Indian Territory before the Civil War. It was opened for settlement by white farmers and ranchers around 1890. Then oil was discovered, and Indians lost not only their land, but also their lives.
Between 1921 and 1926, at least 24 members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma were brutally murdered. The bodies would lay unclaimed and unmourned on the prairies, sometimes for weeks. Detective-work was then in its infancy in the US and, anyway, there was no place for