Ghosts of crook county: an oil fortune, a phantom child, and the fight for indigenous land

Prologue: "It was doubtful if such a person had ever existed"

Growing up in the territory with Minnie Atkins

"Into the light before" : Minnie Atkins at Tullahassee and Carlisle

Becoming a lady : Minnie lights out for the west

"My nation is about to disappear" : enrollment begins

Charles Page, the "Secular Saint" of modern-day Tulsa

The making of "Daddy" Page

Oklahoma joins the dance : the first oil boom in Indian Territory

Emarthla of the Snake Faction

Bartlett's quitclaim : the run on Tommy's land begins

"All crooks at Tulsa" : Minnie Atkins and the receivership hearing

Minnie Atkins in Seattle

"Utterly unworthy of your confidence" : the campaign against R.C. Allen

"There is no justice for the weak?" : resistance against allotment

"What a fool we have been" : the Atkins sisters face off in federal court

"Nancy shatters own chance"

The Sam Brown interlude

"You know how a white man is about money" : Sadie James reveals all

"Anything to get the coin" : the aftermath of the trials, and the death of Minnie Atkins

From blood quantum to liquid gold : Sally Atkins and the erosion of Black freedom during Oklahoma's first oil boom

"But insists he has never died"

Epilogue: Take me back to Tulsa.