In the 1920's a murder plot took place in Osage County to kill certain Osage Indians for the oil "headrights" and the case became known as "The Reign of Terror of the Osage Hills." The US Dept. of Justice, division of investigation (later to become the FBI) conducted an investigation (with some help from local and state lawmen) and eventually the person behind the plot was brought to justice.

I found this evening 2 web sites that have the FBI's file on the investigation of the Osage murders. At http://www.paperlessarchives.com/osage.html you can find the file for sale on CD.

And, at http://foia.fbi.gov/osageind.htm you apparently can download the file in segments. I am checking it out.

Has anyone tried either of these sites?



Dee Cordry
okhombre@ionet.net
Oklahombres.org webmaster

Dee,
I have downloaded the Barker file, the Elvis file, and a couple of other files off of the FBI site.
It just takes awhile for the dowload, due to the volume of the files, but it does work well.

Chuck
Chuck

Hi,

If I recall correctly that series of crimes were recounted in the 1959 movie "The FBI Story" starring Jimmy Stewart. If my foggy memory serves me correctly the movie changed the names to "Ute City" in "Webb County". I knew it was Osage County and always wondered was it actually Webb City, a notorious community in the early 1920's.

I do remember an FBI agent once telling me this case was one of the early examples of the FBI having agents do covert investigations and the solving of the cases one of the Bureaus early investigative success storys.

Alan

Check out -ning- (tributetoosagecounty) Osage
Photo`s #123 thru #129. (courtesy of Osage Historical Society.)(OHA.)
Hale-ect.

And a picture worth a thousand words, in a general term.I`ve got together a few new sites with hundreds of pictures for your history needs. Most inside Osage County, but alot pertaining to the Osage Tribe. Some covering the Osage Murders and the characters involved in it. Also the white collared crimes that has siphon off millions ,if not billions from the true Osage Indians. My opinion, the orginal flooding of the Osage roll by other then true Osage Indians. And the selling of numbers to get on that roll by Tribual Councils of the early years ,some for as low as $300.00 dollars.
Check out these:
http://osagemineralrightsholdersfiasco.ning.com
http://tributetoosagecounty.ning.com
http://osagecountytribute.com

Here it is, here it is, maybe the first in a series of conversations on `The Osage Murders'.
on to http://osagepast.com click the red horizon three line button on the Blog Talk Radio Show.Call in to our weekly Sat.at 5:30P.M. show are welcome.This was a April 03,2010 broadcast.