Join Emma for a discussion of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Sage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land. Though at first this brought the Osage peace, one by one they began to meet untimely deaths. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched the slow succession in which her family was murdered. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.
In this last fragment of the Wild West, nearly anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll excelled more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations ever. Together with the Osage, they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.
David Grann’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” brings light to this true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
Pick up your copy of the book from the front desk! New people always welcome.
Open to adults and teens.
