Rating: 4/5
Yikes! This book is both fascinating and terrifying. It reveals some of the brutality directed toward Native Americans well into the 20th century. That is coupled with the early days of the Bureau of Investigation, which would later become the FBI.
I loved the history aspect of this. Grann sets the scene perfectly to lay out how the Osage got to the point where the book opens. There is more than just murder involved in the destruction of these people. After giving this insight into the Osage, the murders, and what was and was not being done in reaction to those murders, he shifts into the FBI. This mirrors and contrasts the information on the Osage. We get to see the beginnings of this organization and some of the pitfalls it had to deal with early on.
The book is well researched. I enjoyed the writing a lot. Even though he goes in depth on a lot of people and the events, it never felt like it got bogged down. It reads very easily for such a heavy topic.
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