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The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman

text The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman

Summary
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 an... Read more
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 histor... Read more
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xi, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press 2009

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 979.004 OATMAN, OLIVE ANN MIF in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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