the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities
even though I know there is no signal
where most of the brain’s work gets done
surreptitious departures
at the crossroads of two troubled societies
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI adventure the personal essay seizes onOsage County, Oklahoma, in the 1920s was where the richest people per capita in the world were to be found. The reason? Oil. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage Indians had untold wealth. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target, her relatives shot or poisoned. And, as the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case and began to expose one of the most