brought people from all over the world to this part of oklahoma. the oil tycoons all descended, and they bid for leases to drill osage oil. and the osages became incredibly wealthy. over the next two decades, the osage nation would produce more wealth than all of the american gold rushes combined. and little towns like bahuska, not much more than a trading post at the center of the osage reservation, were transformed. . this was pahuska before oil. and then after oil was discovered almost overnight, pahuska turned into this. with oil royalties rolling in, life for the osage changed in an instant.
almost over night it turned into this. with oil royalties rolling in, life for the osage changed in an instant. lincolns and cadillacs were their favorites. look at the women. golfing too. absolutely. in their dresses. with this newfound wealth, megaand sean s grandfather purchased 16 millimeter film camera. that s him there. your grandfather. behind the camera, his wife documented a life that took on a kind of hollywood glamour. look at those flames. my grandfather loved airplanes. did he own this plane? yes. these aren t things you expect to see on the reservation