Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.

Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.