The blue tattoo : the life of Olive Oatman / Margot Mifflin ; with a new postscript by the author.

Title:

ISBN:

9780803235175

9780803211483

Personal Author:

Mifflin, Margot, 1960-

Publication Information:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011]

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

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 -- Epilogue: Oatman's literary half-life -- Postscript: Letter from Farmington.

Personal Subject:

Oatman, Olive Ann.

Oatman, Olive Ann-Captivity, 1851

Subject Term:

Indian captivities--Southwest, New -- History 19th century

Apache Indians -- History 19th century.

Yavapai Indians -- History 19th century

Mohave Indians -- History 19th century

Series Title:

Women in the West.

Series Sequence:

Women in the West