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‘The Deaths of Sybil Bolton’ reprinted by Chicago Review Press, now available

Photo caption: Dennis McAuliffe’s, “The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation,” has been republished with a new cover and a new foreword by author David Grann. Courtesy Photo/Dennis McAuliffe

Sybil Bolton was a young, beautiful, wealthy Osage woman with a new baby when she was found dead in Pawhuska in 1925.

The mystery of her death would haunt her family until her grandson, Dennis McAuliffe, Jr., an award-winning Osage journalist and editor at The Washington Post took it upon himself to investigate.

Through gripping testimony and investigative research, the story that unfolds will stay with you long after the book is read. “The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation,” is a page-turner that will hit home for many Osages, as his descriptive narrative takes you to places in Osage County many will remember. The book also inspired a TATE award-winning one-act play “Four Ways to Die” by playwright David Blakely that premiered in Tulsa in 2018 and was later expanded to a full-length play that premiered in 2019.

The Chicago Review Press has republished the book with a new cover and a new foreword by David Grann, award-winning journalist and author of the bestselling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.”

“The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation,” will be available in paperback beginning Nov. 10 on Amazon.com for $16.99, and the book became available for Kindle download on Nov. 3 for $11.99.

McAuliffe was also recently sworn in as an alternate to the Osage News Editorial Board.

The following is an excerpt from Grann’s foreword:

“Through his remarkable research and compassion, he has shed an essential light on this past. His exquisitely written account, “The Deaths of Sybil Bolton,” was first published in 1994, and now has thankfully been reprinted in this new edition by the Chicago Review Press. The work contains a moving autobiography along with a true who-done-it. And it serves as powerful testimony—testimony of one of the most sinister crimes in American history, which for too long has been erased from official accounts, like the death of Sybil Bolton. McAuliffe has helped to imbed this history where it belongs—in our conscience.”


By

Shannon Shaw Duty


Original Publish Date: 2020-11-05 00:00:00

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Shannon Shaw Duty
Shannon Shaw Dutyhttps://osagenews.org

Title: Editor
Email: sshaw20@gmail.com
Twitter: @dutyshaw
Topic Expertise: Columnist, Culture, Community
Languages spoken: English, Osage (intermediate), Spanish (beginner)

Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage from the Grayhorse District, is the editor of the award-winning Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Legal Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Peoples Law. She currently sits on the Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. She has served as a board member for LION Publishers, as Vice President for the Pawhuska Public Schools Board of Education, on the Board of Directors for the Native American Journalists Association (now Indigenous Journalists Association) and served as a board member and Chairwoman for the Pawhuska Johnson O’Malley Parent Committee. She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, a former instructor for the Freedom Forum’s Native American Journalism Career Conference and the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. She is a former reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a 2012 recipient of the Native American 40 Under 40 from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2014 she helped lead the Osage News to receive NAJA's Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. The Osage News won Best Newspaper from the SPJ-Oklahoma Chapter in their division 2018-2022. Her award-winning work has been published in Indian Country Today, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, NPR, the Associated Press, Tulsa World and others. She currently resides in Pawhuska, Okla., with her husband and together they share six children, two dogs and two cats.

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