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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
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1920s Oklahoma. The richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. Many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. It became the FBI's first major homicide investigation......
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Language
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The murder of an elderly priest who had recently returned to the St. Francis Mission on the Arapaho reservation in Wyoming where he had served in 1964, spurs an investigation that leads to the discovery of a shocking crime committed against the Arapaho thirty-five years earlier.
3) Broken arrow
Language
English
Description
Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.
Pub. Date
1824
Language
English
Description
This collection includes a December 21, 1824 statement of expenditures written and signed by Indian Agent John Johnston regarding the costs "arising out of the murder of nine friendly Indians in Madison County Indiana by sundry Citizens of the United States in March 1823." This opening statement on the document uses the incorrect date of 1823 instead of 1824. The document is an itemization of a number of different expenses, including the coroner's...
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