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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mifflin, Margot, 1960-

Series:

Women in the West.

Women in the West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian captivities--Southwest, New.

Indian captivities.

Apache Indians.

Yavapai Indians.

Mohave Indians.

Oatman, Olive Ann.

Oatman, Olive Ann--Captivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-13078-1

9786612130786

0-8032-2448-6

OCLC:

370958081