04004cam a2200757 4500 1878752703 TxAuBib 20250125120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807012994 0807012998 B0CRTKVLMR Amazon 452f997e-ea33-4cdd-ab08-f4c702a80915 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10393994 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cobb, Russell. Ghosts of Crook County [Libby eBook] : An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land. Beacon Press, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. native american history. gifts for history buffs. American Indian history. American history books. United States History. history teacher gifts. history lovers gifts. history buff gifts. indigenous rights. american history. american indians. historical books. Native American. American Indian. western fiction. Decolonization. history books. history gifts. us history. True Crime. Historical. Biography. Gold rush. Civil War. americana. Land back. Business. old west. American. mystery. murder . History. mining. money. crime. greed. Law. HTML:<b>The true—and unsolved—story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed<br /> For readers of David Grann’s award-winning <i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i></b><br /> In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the “American Century,” few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, these counterfeit tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land.<br /> Writer and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb sets the stage for one such oilman’s chicanery: Tulsa entrepreneur Charles Page’s campaign for a young Muscogee boy’s land in Creek County. Problem was, “Tommy Atkins,” the boy in question, had died years prior—if he ever lived at all.<br /> <i>Ghosts of Crook County</i> traces Tommy’s mythologized life through Page’s relentless pursuit of his land. We meet Minnie Atkins and the two other women who claimed to be Tommy’s “real” mother. Minnie would testify a story of her son’s life and death that fulfilled the legal requirements for his land to be transferred to Page. And we meet Tommy himself—or the men who proclaimed themselves to be him, alive and well in court.<br /> Through evocative storytelling, Cobb chronicles with unflinching precision the lasting effects of land-grabbing white men on Indigenous peoples. What emerges are the interconnected stories of unabashedly greedy men, the exploitation of Indigenous land, and the legacy of a boy who may never have existed. True Crime. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-01-25 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=452f997e-ea33-4cdd-ab08-f4c702a80915&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=452f997e-ea33-4cdd-ab08-f4c702a80915&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BELPL