| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Women in the West |
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Women in the West.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Oatman, Olive Ann.
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Oatman, Olive Ann -- Captivity
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| SUBJECT |
Oatman, Olive Ann -- Captivity, 1851
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Oatman, Olive Ann
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Oatman, Olive Ann fast |
| Subject |
Indian captivities -- Southwest, New
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Apache Indians.
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Yavapai Indians.
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Mohave Indians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Apache Indians
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Captivity
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Indian captivities
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Mohave Indians
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Yavapai Indians
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New Southwest
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803224483 |
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0803224486 |
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9780803254350 |
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0803254350 |
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1282130781 |
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9781282130784 |
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