GHOSTS OF CROOK COUNTY: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, counterfeit tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land. Cobb exposes one such oilman's chicanery: Tulsa entrepreneur Charles Page's campaign for the land of a young Muscogee boy who died years prior, if he ever lived at all. Illus.
Format: Paperbound
Pages: 286
Publisher: Beacon
Publishing status: Current
ISBN: 9780807021392
Item #: 9287752