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"Killer of the Flower Moon"/Book Club

Date and Time

Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM Mountain Time (US & Canada) (UTC-07:00)

Location

Eloise May Library
1471 S Parker Road
Denver, CO   8023
USA

Event Contact(s)

Chris Chamberlain

Category

Book Club

Registration Info

Registration is required

About this event

Killer of the Flower Moon by David Grann is the book we will be reading.

A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. Now a Martin Scorsese picture.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land.  But one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.  The newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Dave Walstrom will moderate the discussion.