Title:
The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman / Margot Mifflin.
Author:
Mifflin, Margot, 1960-
Publication Information:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
Call Number:
E99.A6 O185 2009
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008038358.html
ISBN:
9780803211483
Series:
Women in the West
Women in the West.
Physical Description:
xi, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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.
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