This story will capture your imagination. The narrative breathes life back into the most prominent victims of the Osage Reign of Terror. The stories are tragic. Justice, when it comes, does not roar like a lion into the courthouse. Justice comes slowly and incompletely and limps into the county. Justice does not restore the dozens of lost lives or restore lost fortunes or respect or much of anything to the Osage.
This book and the story that inspired it are warnings to us of what prejudice and a broken justice system do to our most vulnerable. Although this story happened generations before us, it is still an indictment against the racism and injustice we allow in society today.