The Years of Fear: A Western StoryIt was the roaring twenties, and they descended like a swarm of locusts on the oil-rich Osage Indians of Oklahoma: jackleg lawyers, thieves, "dope" doctors, prostitutes, bootleggers, oily merchants, and fortune hunters determined "to marry me a rich Osage" preying on naive Indian girls. Per capita, the Osage were the wealthiest people in the United States, and every no-account drifter had a plan to get his hands on some of that money. Unsolved Indian homicides occurred at an alarming rate, as witnesses vanished, fearing for their lives. |
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