Quotes About Osage

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.

Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.

Since the late 1840s settlers used close-planted Osage orange trees along the borders of their farms, creating, as the thorny wood filled in over some years of trimming, a living fence "horse-high, bull-strong and hog-tight." It was barbed wire in the days before barbed wire was invented.