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Christian life Fiction Mason, Biddy 1818-1891 McLoughlin, Marguerite 1775-1860 Native Americans California Fiction Oatman, Olive Ann Pioneers West (U.S.) Biography West (U.S.) History Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss 1808-1847 Women pioneers West (U.S.) Biography Women West (U.S.) BiographyMifflin, Margot
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 and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Indians, she and her sister are captured, only to be ransomed later by a band of Mohaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2003
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Summary: "As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, "Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard." But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2022