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Earning Their Spurs in the Oil Patch: The Cinematic FBI, the Osage Murders, and the Test of the American West
This article covers the Osage Murders, a series of murders occurring in Osage county in the early 1920s where victims were members of the Osage Tribe who all held rights that entitled them to oil royalties. The murders were eventually solved and later used to promote the Federal Bureau of Investigation, even being used as the basis for multiple books and movies.
Date:
Summer 2006
Creator:
Warren, Andrew L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History