The Million Dollar Elm (unknown - 1980s; 2014 - 2024) was the name given to multiple trees in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, known for marking the site of auctions for oil leases to drill in the Osage Nation.
[3] The auctions were attended by oil barons, such as Frank Phillips and E. W. Marland, as well as influential members of the Osage Nation, such as John Joseph Mathews.
[1] A new Million Dollar Elm was replanted by Osage Nation Secretary Casey Johnson in 2014.
The Osage Nation Police Department opened an investigation into the felling May 1.
[6] Cody J. Willard, a master arborist, later determined the tree had been sawed 40% through several months earlier likely with a yellow Dewalt Sawzall.