The blue tattoo the life of Olive Oatman /
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her fam...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Women in the West.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo 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. She became an i. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803224483 (electronic bk.) 0803224486 (electronic bk.) 9780803254350 0803254350 |