The deaths of Sybil Bolton : oil, greed, and murder on the Osage Reservation
Publication Information
Chicago, Illinois : Council Oak Books, and imprint of Chicago Review Press, Inc., 2021.
Physical Description
xii, 338 pages : genealogical table ; 23 cm
Summary
Journals Dennis McAuliffe 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. 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 up the oil-rich Osage reservation to court, marry, and murder Native women to gain control of their money."--Page 4 of cover
Notes
Originally pubished as The deaths of Sybil Bolton byTimes Books, 1994--Title page verso.
Subjects
- Osage Indians > Social conditions.
- Osage Indians > Crimes against.
- Murder > Oklahoma > Pawhuska.
- Petroleum industry and trade > Oklahoma > Pawhuska.
- Osage Indians > Biography.
- Osage County (Okla.) > History > 20th century.
- Bolton, Sybil, -1925.
- Bolton, Sybil, -1925 > Death and burial.
- McAuliffe, Dennis, 1949-