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Author:

Mifflin, Margot, 1960-

Title:

The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman / Margot Mifflin.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xi, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Oatman, Olive Ann.
Oatman, Olive Ann--Captivity.
Indian captivities--Southwest, New.
Apache Indians.
Yavapai Indians.
Mohave Indians.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) 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.

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:

9780803211483 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803211481 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244701531

LCCN:

2008038358

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