“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Many Osage, unlike other wealthy Americans, could not spend their money as they pleased because of the federally imposed system of financial… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“It was getting so that you could not bury an Osage Indian at a cost of under $6,000”—a sum that, adjusted for… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The crooked guardians and administrators of Osage estates were typically among the most prominent white citizens:” — David Grann Copy Share Image
“One government study estimated that before 1925 guardians had pilfered at least $8 million directly from the restricted accounts of their Osage… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“A prominent member of the Osage tribe put the matter more bluntly: "It is a question in my mind whether this jury… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“But within four years Jefferson had compelled the Osage to relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River. The… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The Osage had been assured by the U.S. government that their Kansas territory would remain their home forever, but before long they… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — David Grann Copy Share
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann Copy Share
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann Copy Share
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — David Grann Copy Share
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann Copy Share
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors… — David Grann Copy Share
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share
I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. — David Grann Copy Share
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction… — David Grann Copy Share
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book. — David Grann Copy Share
