Mifflin, Margot
The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman / Margot Mifflin. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009. - xi, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - Women in the West .
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.
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.
9780803211483 (cloth : alk. paper) 0803211481 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008038358
Oatman, Olive Ann--Captivity, 1851.
Indian captivities--Southwest, New.
Apache Indians.
Yavapai Indians.
Mohave Indians.
979.104092 Mif 15
The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman / Margot Mifflin. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009. - xi, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - Women in the West .
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.
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.
9780803211483 (cloth : alk. paper) 0803211481 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008038358
Oatman, Olive Ann--Captivity, 1851.
Indian captivities--Southwest, New.
Apache Indians.
Yavapai Indians.
Mohave Indians.
979.104092 Mif 15