The blue tattoo the life of Olive Oatman /

• Main Author: Mifflin, Margot, 1960-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
• Series: Women in the West.
• Subjects: Oatman, Olive Ann.; Oatman, Olive Ann > Captivity.; Indian captivities > Southwest, New.; Apache Indians.; Yavapai Indians.; Mohave Indians.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.; HISTORY > General. > State & Local; Captivity.; Indian captivities.; Southwest, New.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of 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.