The blue tattoo :: the life of Olive Oatman /

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 fam...

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1. Verfasser: Mifflin, Margot, 1960-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Schriftenreihe:Women in the West.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
ISBN:9780803224483
0803224486
9780803254350
0803254350
1282130781
9781282130784

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