A Spur Award-winning Author It was the Roaring Twenties, and they descended like a swarm of locusts on the oil-rich Osage Indians of Oklahoma: jackleg lawyers, thieves, "dope" doctors, prostitutes, bootleggers, oily merchants, and fortune hunters determined "to marry me a rich Osage" preying on naive Indian girls. Unsolved Indian homicides occurred at an alarming rate as witnesses vanished, fearing for their lives. Were all the killings unrelated, or were they the work of someone with a powerful motive?