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Killers of the Flower Moon is an instant classic. It’s a sad topic that they managed to handle with grace, arguably better than the book it’s based on did, which I did review of that awhile ago. The Osage Murders, or the Terror as the tribe calls the time, was an atrocious series of events that have yet to be fully covered and may never be. But I can at least explain the general context of why more than 50 Osages were likely murdered for oil money over the course of just a few years in the 1920s.
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*Bibliography*
Laton McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country (New York: Random House, 2008). amzn.to/47DGBMw
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (New York: Vintage Books, 2017). amzn.to/45ivI0E
Verdon R. Adams, Tom White: The Life of a Lawman (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1972). amzn.to/3P2FC0F
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Wiki: Killers of the Flower Moon[a] is a 2023 American epic Western crime drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Martin Scorsese. Eric Roth and Scorsese based their screenplay on the 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann.[7][8] Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it focuses on a series of murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on tribal land. The tribal members had retained mineral rights on their reservation, but a corrupt local political boss sought to steal the wealth. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone lead an ensemble cast. Hashtags: #history #killersoftheflowermoon #OsageMurders #review #basedonatruestory
Chapters
0:00 intro
1:04 YT BS
3:16 Reality
7:45 Scholarship
10:08 Accuracy
13:51 Inaccuracy
18:15 outro
Killers of the Flower Moon is an instant classic. It’s a sad topic that they managed to handle with grace, arguably better than the book it’s based on did, which I did review of that awhile ago. The Osage Murders, or the Terror as the tribe calls the time, was an atrocious series of events that have yet to be fully covered and may never be. But I can at least explain the general context of why more than 50 Osages were likely murdered for oil money over the course of just a few years in the 1920s.
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*Bibliography*
Laton McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country (New York: Random House, 2008). amzn.to/47DGBMw
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (New York: Vintage Books, 2017). amzn.to/45ivI0E
Verdon R. Adams, Tom White: The Life of a Lawman (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1972). amzn.to/3P2FC0F
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Connected videos
Book club review: youtube.com/live/DjlhcztvDGs
Wild West myth: youtu.be/F4Ohe9FU8Qo
Lost City of Z: youtu.be/T65dOj1c4Fg
Wrongfully Demon-itized playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUWJt6-1-dlVWrPfD4-lpOk&si=S3XD9ieCY_WJM1Dl
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Wiki: Killers of the Flower Moon[a] is a 2023 American epic Western crime drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Martin Scorsese. Eric Roth and Scorsese based their screenplay on the 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann.[7][8] Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it focuses on a series of murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on tribal land. The tribal members had retained mineral rights on their reservation, but a corrupt local political boss sought to steal the wealth. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone lead an ensemble cast. Hashtags: #history #killersoftheflowermoon #OsageMurders #review #basedonatruestory
Chapters
0:00 intro
1:04 YT BS
3:16 Reality
7:45 Scholarship
10:08 Accuracy
13:51 Inaccuracy
18:15 outro
