| CH |
|
FIRST NAME |
|
LAST NAME |
|
DESCRIPTION |
| 1 |
|
Mollie |
|
Burkhart |
|
Lives in
Osage town Gray Horse. aka: Wah-kon-he-um-pah. |
| |
|
Anna |
|
Brown |
|
Mollie's
sister who vanished. aka: Wah-hrah-lum-pah/Annie. |
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|
Minnie |
|
|
|
Mollie's
sister - died. aka: Wah-sha-she. |
| |
|
Ernest |
|
Burkhart |
|
Mollie's
husband. |
| |
|
William
K. |
|
Hale |
|
Ernest's
uncle. aka: King of the Osage Hills. |
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|
Elizabeth |
|
|
|
Ernest
and Mollie's daughter. |
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|
James |
|
|
|
Ernest
and Mollie's son. aka: Cowboy. |
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|
Lizzie |
|
|
|
Mollie's
mother. |
| |
|
Bryan |
|
Burkhart |
|
One of
Ernest's brothers. |
| |
|
Horace |
|
Burkhart |
|
One of
Ernest's brothers. |
| |
|
Oda |
|
Brown |
|
Anna's
ex-husband. |
| |
|
Charles |
|
Whitehorn |
|
Another
Osage resident who vanished. |
| |
|
Scott |
|
Mathis |
|
Owner of
Big Hill Trading Company. |
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|
Rita |
|
|
|
One of
Mollie's sisters. aka: Me-se-moie. |
| |
|
Bill |
|
Smith |
|
Rita's
husband. |
| |
|
Kelsie |
|
Morrison |
|
Notorious
bootlegger and dope peddler. |
| 2 |
|
James |
|
Shoun |
|
One of
the doctors who performed Anna's autopsy. |
| |
|
David |
|
Shoun |
|
One of the doctors who performed Anna's autopsy. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Rigor mortis - stiffening of limbs
when dead. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Algor
mortis - a corpse's changing temperature. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Livor
Mortis - discoloring of the skin. |
| |
|
Harve M. |
|
Freas |
|
Osage
County sheriff. |
| |
|
Henry |
|
Grammer |
|
Rodeo
Champion and drug distributor. |
| 3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Wah'Kon-Tah - The Great Mystery. |
| |
|
Irvin |
|
Thompson |
|
Hard-boiled stickup man. aka: Blackie. |
| |
|
Al |
|
Spencer |
|
Gang
leader. aka: Phantom Terror. |
| |
|
Dick |
|
Gregg |
|
One of
Al's gang members. aka: Jelly. |
| 4 |
|
Ne-kay-e-se-y |
|
|
|
Mollie's
father. aka: Jimmy. |
| |
|
Laura I. |
|
Wilder |
|
American
writer. |
| |
|
Wah-Ti- |
|
An-Kah |
|
An Osage
Chief. |
| |
|
John |
|
Florer |
|
Kansas
frontiersman. Set up Gray Horse trading post. |
| |
|
James |
|
Bigheart |
|
A great
Osage Chief. aka: Osage Moses. |
| |
|
John |
|
Palmer |
|
Lawyer
representing the Osage. |
| |
|
George |
|
Getty |
|
Attorney
from Minneapolis. |
| |
|
Jean Paul |
|
Getty |
|
George's
son. Founded Getty Oil Company. |
| |
|
Frank |
|
Phillips |
|
A
wildcatter. |
| |
|
E. W. |
|
Marland |
|
Discovered oil in Burbank. |
| 5 |
|
Pike |
|
|
|
Private
detective from Kansas City. |
| |
|
William
J. |
|
Burns |
|
Former
Secret Service agent. Owner of Detective Agency. |
| |
|
Rose |
|
Osage |
|
An Indian
in Fairfax. Suspect in Anna's murder. |
| |
|
Joe |
|
Allen |
|
Rose's
boyfriend. |
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|
A. W. |
|
Comstock |
|
Attorney
and guardian of several Osage Indians. |
| |
|
Hattie |
|
Whitehorn |
|
Charles
Whitehorn's widow. |
| |
|
William |
|
Stepson |
|
Osage
champion steer roper. |
| |
|
Joe |
|
Bates |
|
Died of
poisoning. |
| |
|
Barney |
|
McBride |
|
Wealthy
white oilman. |
| 6 |
|
Bill |
|
Skelly |
|
A rich
oilman in Osage auctions. |
| |
|
Harry |
|
Sinclair |
|
A rich
oilman in Osage auctions. |
| |
|
Col.
Ellsworth |
|
Walters |
|
Auctioneer at Osage auctions. |
| |
|
Bacon |
|
Rind |
|
An Osage
Chief. |
| 7 |
|
Henry |
|
Roan |
|
An Osage
Indian. Another murder victim. |
| |
|
Roy |
|
Bunch |
|
Henry's
wife lover. |
| |
|
Anna |
|
|
|
Ernest
and Mollie's third child. |
| |
|
Asa |
|
Kirby |
|
A stickup
man. One of Grammer's men. aka: Acie. |
| |
|
John |
|
Ramsey |
|
Cow
rustler. One of Grammer's men. |
| |
|
Nettie |
|
Brookshire |
|
Bill and
Rita's white servant. |
| |
|
Jack C. |
|
Walton |
|
Governor
of Oklahoma. |
| |
|
Herman
Fox |
|
Davis |
|
Lawyer
and former private detective in Burns. |
| |
|
W. W. |
|
Vaughan |
|
Former
prosecutor. |
| |
|
George |
|
Bigheart |
|
Chief
James Bigheart's nephew. |
| |
|
Charles |
|
Curtis |
|
U.S.
Senator from Kansas. |
| 8 |
|
Tom |
|
White |
|
Special
agent leads Bureau of Investigation's Houston office. |
| |
|
J. C. |
|
White |
|
Tom's
brother. Former Texas Ranger. aka: Doc. |
| |
|
Harlan
Fiske |
|
Stone |
|
New
attorney general. |
| 9 |
|
John |
|
Burger |
|
Agent
retained by White. |
| |
|
Frank |
|
Smith |
|
An agent
who worked openly with White. |
| |
|
John |
|
Wren |
|
Spy for
the revolutionary leaders in Mexico. |
| 10 |
|
Lloyd |
|
Miller |
|
Morrison's alias.aka: Slim. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Bertillonage - method to identify repeat criminals. |
| |
|
Alphonse |
|
Bertillon |
|
French
criminologist. |
| |
|
Ida |
|
Tarbell |
|
Muckraking journalist. |
| 11 |
|
Necia |
|
Kenny |
|
White
woman who may be key in case. |
| 13 |
|
Robert E. |
|
White |
|
Tom's
father. Sheriff of Travis County, Texas. |
| |
|
Maggie |
|
|
|
Tom's
mother. |
| |
|
Dudley |
|
|
|
Tom's
older brother. |
| |
|
D. C. |
|
Evans |
|
Rape
victim. |
| |
|
Ed |
|
Nichols |
|
A black
man convicted of rape. |
| |
|
Coley |
|
|
|
One of
Tom's brothers. |
| |
|
Oscar |
|
Roundtree |
|
Texas
ranger. Tom's partner. |
| |
|
Bessie |
|
Patterson |
|
Tom's
wife. |
| |
|
N. P. |
|
Thomas |
|
A Ranger.
One of Tom's closest friends. |
| 15 |
|
Alfred |
|
Dreyfus |
|
Man
wrongfully convicted of treason. |
| 17 |
|
Dick |
|
Gregg |
|
Young
stickup man formerly with Spencer Gang. |
| |
|
Curley |
|
Johnson |
|
Blackie
Thompson's stickup buddy. |
| 18 |
|
Burt |
|
Lawson |
|
Prisoner
at McAlester. |
| |
|
Luther |
|
Bishop |
|
Lawman in
charge of transferring Blackie. |
| 19 |
|
Roy |
|
St. Lewis |
|
U. S.
Attorney. One of the prosecutors. |
| |
|
John |
|
Leahy |
|
Local
attorney. One of the prosecutors. |
| |
|
Jim |
|
Springer |
|
John
Ramsey's lawyer. aka: Fixer. |
| |
|
Katherine |
|
Cole |
|
Kelsie
Morrison's former wife. |
| |
|
E. J. |
|
Ernest |
|
Ernest
Burkhart's alias. |
| |
|
Flint |
|
Moss |
|
Burkhart's new lawyer. |
| 21 |
|
Red |
|
Rudensky |
|
An inmate
at Leavenworth prison. |
| |
|
Carl |
|
Panzram |
|
Murderer
sentenced to be hanged. |
| |
|
John |
|
Cobb |
|
Mollie's
new husband. |
| |
|
Boxcar |
|
|
|
An inmate
involved in the prison break. |
| |
|
Ernie |
|
Pyle |
|
Newspaper
reporter. |
| |
|
Fred |
|
Grove |
|
Author of
western novels. |
| 22 |
|
Kathryn |
|
Red Corn |
|
Director
of the Osage Nation Museum. |
| |
|
Margie |
|
Burkhart |
|
Mollie
Burkhart's granddaughter. |
| |
|
Andrew |
|
Lowe |
|
Margie's
husband. |
| 23 |
|
Martha |
|
Vaughan |
|
W. W.
Vaughan's granddaughter. |
| |
|
Melville |
|
Vaughan |
|
Martha's
cousin. |
| |
|
H. G. |
|
Burt |
|
Bank
president in Pawhuska. |
| 24 |
|
LeRoy |
|
Smitherman |
|
Hattie's
new jusband. |
| |
|
Minnie |
|
Savage |
|
Suspect
in Whitehorn's murder. |
| |
|
J. J. |
|
Faulkner |
|
Man who
was extorting Hattie. |
| 25 |
|
Mary-Bellieu |
|
Lewis |
|
Murder
victim. |
| |
|
Anna
Marie |
|
Jefferson |
|
Great-great-grandniece of Mary Lewis. |
| |
|
Thomas |
|
Middleton |
|
Lewis's
friend. |
| |
|
Eves Tall |
|
Chief |
|
Another
murder victim. |
| |
|
Mary |
|
Ilkins |
|
An Osage
ward. |
| |
|
Sybil |
|
Bolton |
|
Murder
victim ruled a suicide. |
| |
|
Dennis |
|
McAuliffe
Jr. |
|
Bolton's
grandson. |
| |
|
Tillie |
|
|
|
Marvin's
father. |
| |
|
Mary Jo |
|
Webb |
|
Retired
teacher. Spent years investigating grandfather's death. |
| |
|
Paul |
|
Peace |
|
Webb's
grandfather. |
