Join the Hartsville Branch Library's Book Discussion Group 

The discussion group will meet on Tuesday, June 26th at noon at the

Hartsville Country Club.

We are reading and discussing Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. 

Copies of the book are available for check out at the Circulation Desk of the Library. 

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Osage Indians were driven onto a presumed worthless expanse of land in northeastern Oklahoma. But their territory turned out to be atop one of the largest oil deposits in the United States; to obtain that oil, prospectors were required to pay the tribe for leases and royalties. By the 1920s, the members of Osage Nation had become the wealthiest people per capita in the world. And then the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances. 

 

As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four and local law enforcement made little progress, the fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in. Headed by agent Tom White, the investigation was closely overseen in Washington by the Bureau’s ambitious newly appointed director, J. Edgar Hoover. 

 

Exposing the turbulent history of the relations between whites and the Osage Nation over the course of more than a century, Killers of the Flower Moon provides a disturbing look at the deep-seated prejudices that continue to cast a shadow over our country.

 

Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Hartsville Memorial Library.  

Copies of this title are available at the Circulation Desk of the Hartsville Memorial Library for readers who plan to attend the discussion.  Please join us!