interesting book . well-researched .

This book provides an incredible insight to the dark side of history of the United States of America. Many people believe that the FBI is made by the government as a way of keeping track of the population. The FBI was born due to the lack of expertise in the national investigation system. I think this book does a good job of illustrating the difficulties in a crime investigation and how devoted investigators are to the work. This book educated me a lot on how deep crime investigation can get and how much thinking it requires. I believe that they are very talented and can take thought routes ordinary people cannot even imagine.

I rated this book a 10/10 because the amount of research this author put into the book. I think that this author was truly passionate about this topic and conducted lots of interviews with the people who had connections to this incident. I really enjoyed this book and I would recommend this to everyone of all ages.

A very sad part of our history. The old "follow the money" was so true. Very well written, kept my attention throughout the book. So many people murdered for rights to oil. if you enjoy history and sleuth you will enjoy this read.

I could not put this book down. Finished it in two days. One of the best true-life mystery stories. Excellent read. A must read for fans of history and mystery.

This is an interesting bit of true crime and seemed well researched. If you normally love investigative non-fiction or true crime I think you will probably really enjoy this.

Interesting book about greed and the systematic abuse and murder of the Osage natives. This is what happens when someone thinks what you have should be theirs.

A fascinating but grim look at hidden American history. Writer David Grann is the perfect example of an obsessive reporter, willing to do years of research on an incident that was a major story a century ago but which most people have never heard of. In the 1800s, the Osage Indian tribe was forcibly moved from its ancestral homeland in Missouri, first to Kansas, then in the 1870s to a rocky part of Oklahoma that no one else wanted. But in the 1900s oil was found there and the Osage owned the mineral rights. By 1920, the Osage were, per capita, the richest people on earth.

Legally, these mineral rights were called “headrights.” The law included a stipulation that no Osage could sell his or her headrights. They could only change hands by inheritance. Suddenly a lot of white bankers, lawyers, and cattle barons became “best friends” to the Osage. And in 1921, the murders started, possibly as many as 600. Local doctors, sheriffs, judges, bankers, etc. seemed to be locked up in the plot to eventually concentrate ownership of the headrights in the hands of a few young survivors, who could be controlled and embezzled blind.

When you think about the Old West and what you were told as a child about who were the “good guys”, a book like this will make you reconsider, “Who were the savages?”

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON examines a dark and little known chapter in American history. Author David Grann relates a sensational tale of greed, corruption, betrayal, and murder in 1920s Oklahoma, but surely he could’ve done this in fewer pages and with better prose.

This is an incredible true story that, thanks to David Grann's untiring research, shed light on a series of murders that are almost beyond comprehension. As commented just below, I too am stunned by man's inhumanity to man. Money is not the root of all evil; greed is. To say that David handled the matter in an unvarnished and straight-forward manner would be an understatement. He did an excellent job and God love his research if for no other reason than to comfort a group of American's - American's mind you - that by and large have been ignored since the founding of this great country. Also agree that any Holly-Duh effort to put this on film would fall way short. Still, I hope Hollywood does make the attempt, for even a rotten effort on their part would bring this story to the country's doorstep and perhaps someone (if even one person) would see it and understand how much of a raw deal American Indians got.

An important addition to the history of Oklahoma, no matter how savage and evil.