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Author:

Mifflin, Margot, 1960-

Title:

The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman / Margot Mifflin ; with a new postscript by the author.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xi, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Oatman, Olive Ann.
Mohave Indians--History--19th century.
Indian captivities--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
Yavapai Indians--History--19th century.
Apache Indians--History--19th century.

Notes:

Originally published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Quicksand -- Indian country -- "How little we thought what was before us" -- A year with the Yavapais -- Lorenzo's tale -- Becoming Mohave -- Deeper -- "There is a happy land, far, far away" -- Journey to Yuma -- Hell's outpost -- Rewriting history in Gassburg, Oregon -- Captive audiences -- "We met as friends, giving the left hand in friendship" -- Olive Fairchild, Texan -- Epilogue: Oatman's literary half-life -- Postscript: Letter from Farmington.

Summary:

Tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.

Series:

Women in the west

ISBN:

0803235178 (paper : alk. paper)
9780803235175 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2010044619

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

BSPB851 -- Colo Public Library (Colo)

KDPB896 -- Farmington Public Library (Farmington)

FVPB284 -- Hopkinton Public Library (Hopkinton)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)