by David Grann
“Walking through”: Robert Allen Warrior, “Review Essay: The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An American History,” Wicazo Sa Review 11 (1995): 52.
“You should be ashamed”: McAuliffe, Deaths of Sybil Bolton, 137.
“Harry didn’t do it”: Ibid., 139.
“I did not prove”: From McAuliffe’s revised and updated edition of The Deaths of Sybil Bolton, which was renamed Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation (San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 1999), 287.
“There are men”: Quoted in Wallis, Oil Man, 152.
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