Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Scandal add-free on Amazon Music, download the app today.

A listener note, this episode contains graphic descriptions and may not be suitable for younger listeners.

It's May 24, 1921 in Osage County, Oklahoma. In a wide open prairie, a man with shaggy blonde hair stalks through the grass.

In one hand, he carries a canteen and the other is a rifle.

The man is a hunter and as he moves through the prairie he scans the landscape looking for squirrels.

In every direction there's tall golden grass and wildflowers.

Metal marks chirp and often the distance there's the faint banging of oil drills.

The hunter glances over his shoulder.

Two others, his friend and the hunter's teenage son are a few feet away.

They're also holding rifles and while they've been at it for hours no one's hit a squirrel all morning.

The hunter wipes a sweat from his forehead. It's a scorching hot day.

Maybe it's time to stop, get some water down by the creek.

The group walks down to the bank of the creek. It's mossy and lush.

And as the hunter leans over to grabs some water, he hears a rustling in a nearby tree.

Hunter snaps back up and nods at his son. It's his turn.

With an eye on the tree the boy raises his rifle, aims and fires.

A squirrel falls from the branches. It tumbles into a deep gorge which slopes down far beneath ground level.

The hunter turns to his son and grins. It was a perfect shot and he can see the boy knows it.

Right away his son runs down the slope and goes to fetch the squirrel from the gorge.

The hunter's friend sits down his rifle and chuckles.

Oh, you're a boy. He's got a real eye. Can't say the same about you.

Ah, come off it. My problem is it's this gun. It's all rusted.

...