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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Women in the West.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803224483 0803224486 9780803254350 0803254350 1282130781 9781282130784 |