The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An American History

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Dennis McAuliffe grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. But sixty-six years later, he began investigating the circumstances surrounding her death and soon found himself peeling away the layers of a suppressed nightmare chapter of American history. From the moment he discovers that the cause of Sybil's death was a gunshot wound, McAuliffe embarks on a journey that brings him face-to-face with the unspeakable brutality of the "Osage Reign of Terror." He learns that Sybil was the victim not of random violence but of a systematic killing spree in the 1920s, carried out by the white settlers of Oklahoma against the Osage Nation. The Osages were ...
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Dennis McAuliffe grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. But sixty-six years later, he began investigating the circumstances surrounding her death and soon found himself peeling away the layers of a suppressed nightmare chapter of American history. From the moment he discovers that the cause of Sybil's death was a gunshot wound, McAuliffe embarks on a journey that brings him face-to-face with the unspeakable brutality of the "Osage Reign of Terror." He learns that Sybil was the victim not of random violence but of a systematic killing spree in the 1920s, carried out by the white settlers of Oklahoma against the Osage Nation. The Osages were not your typical Indians; in fact, they were the richest ethnic group in America at the time - they built mansions, rode in limousines, and sent their children to finishing schools in Europe and Ivy League universities. Their land sat atop one of the largest oil fields in North America, and the revenues from what one historian called their "underground reservation" provided each Osage Indian with an annual income equivalent to more than a million dollars today. The white settlers wanted this money for themselves, even if they had to kill off the Osages to get it. The Deaths of Sybil Bolton uncovers the true story behind Sybil's death and the full extent of the crimes committed against the Osages: how white lawyers appointed by Congress to protect the Osages systematically swindled the tribe; how a ring of prominent and envious whites poisoned or shot hundreds of Osages in order to seize their oil holdings - and then papered over the Reign of Terror with doctored death certificates; and how solving the mystery of his grandmother's death led McAuliffe to confront the mysteries of his own life. It is a powerful, disturbing, and revelatory narrative, reintroducing us to a people whose story has been literally torn from the volumes of our nation's his

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McAuliffe, a Washington Post editor, never knew his maternal grandmother, Sybil Bolton, an Osage Indian. She died in 1925 at age 21, allegedly of kidney disease. Recently, however, he learned by accident that her death was recorded as suicide. Gripped by disbelief and reporter's instinct, McAuliffe spent the next two years searching for the facts of her death. He unravelled a shocking story that leaves little doubt that his grandmother was murdered. In Oklahoma in the early 1920s, the oil-rich Osages were targetted by prominent white ``guardians'' in cahoots with corrupt physicians and local politicians. Hundreds of Osages were shot or poisoned, so that their ``guardians'' could gain rights to their oil holdings. McAuliffe tells the story of a shameful history. Author tour. (Aug.)
Library Journal
When Washington Post writer McAuliffe discovered that his Osage Indian grandmother actually died of a gunshot wound, and not kidney disease as he has always been told, he began to wonder about his Osage ancestry and its place in his life. He spent a summer in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in search of his roots, researching the Osages and trying to determine whether his grandmother committed suicide in 1925 or was actually murdered as part of a killing spree by whites against the oil-rich Osages. McAuliffe works through his anger and frustration as he writes; his style is readable and authentically emotional, if somewhat lacking in polish. This account of one man's search for his hidden ethnic heritage is recommended for larger libraries and those with special subject interest.-Gwen Gregory, U.S. Courts Lib., Phoenix
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Margaret Flanagan
By the time journalist McAuliffe completed tracing his own Native American roots, he had also solved a dormant 60-year-old murder mystery via a painstaking familial and historical investigation. When the author initially embarked upon his highly personal odyssey into the past, he discovered the shocking fact that his maternal grandmother, Sybil Bolton, a beautiful, well-educated member of the oil-rich Osage tribe, had apparently committed suicide at the tender age of 22. While reconstructing the shattered pieces of his grandmother's brief life, McAuliffe began to suspect foul play. By interweaving Sybil's heartbreaking story with the tragic chronicle of the Osage nation, he arrived at the well-founded conclusion that she, like hundreds of other wealthy Osages during the 1920s, fell victim to the white lawyer assigned to act on her behalf by the U.S. government. An intimate quest for identity, a fascinating real-life whodunit, and a shattering expose of another shameful episode in the painful history of U.S. and Indian relations.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780812921502
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 8/23/1994
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 337
  • Product dimensions: 6.58 (w) x 9.51 (h) x 1.22 (d)

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