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The devil was William Hale, a cattleman from Texas who'd come to the Osage Reservation in the latter years of the nineteenth century and accumulated a fortune in land and assets, earning himself the nickname "the King of the Osage Hills." No amount of money and power seemed to be enough for Hale, however, and in 1921 he set in motion a meticulous and horrifying plot to kill off an entire family of Osage in order to obtain the rights to their land, which sat atop an ocean of oil.
full: http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/the-devil-and-david-grann-how-the-lost-city-of-z-author-found-his-way-to-a-follow-up-9918104
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