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The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation

By Kalani Queypo , Dennis Grann

Book information

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781641604192, 9781641604161
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1650384 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 16:22:06
HistoryNonfictionTRU002000TRU010000True Crime

Description

A true story of greed and murder of Native Americans by their countrymen Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he learned the real cause was a gunshot wound, and that her murder may well have been engineered by his own grandfather. As McAuliffe peeled away layers of suppressed history, he learned that Sybil was a victim of the "Osage Reign of Terror"—a systematic killing spree in the 1920s when white men descended upon the oil-rich Osage reservation to court, marry, and murder Native women to gain control of their money. The Deaths of Sybil Bolton is part murder mystery, part family memoir, and part spiritual journey.

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