Women in the West: The Blue Tattoo : The Life of Olive Oatman (Paperback)

from hobbitprincess

Olive Oatman and her sister were taken by a Native American tribe while her family was heading west in the early 1850s. Olive lived among them for 5 years before being returned to white society. The story is interesting, and I learned a good deal about some of the Native American tribes in the so...

from lissabeth21

I didn't know anything about Olive Oatman and I'm very glad this book was my first exposure. Well researched and documented, it gave both the modern insight as well as the historical perspective. My favorite part was the ending, a letter in Olive's own hand.

from LynnB

Margot Mifflin has done a good job of researching the story of Olive Oatman. Ms. Oatman's family was killed by Indians in the 1850s, and the teenaged Olive and her younger sister were kidnapped. They were later traded to another tribe where they were accepted and adopted into a family. Ms. Miffli...

from caseylondon

What happens when a young Mormon girl is abducted into slavery by a band of Yavapai Indians then sold to another tribe where she is adopted as daughter into a Mohave family? The Blue Tattoo is a beautifully crafted history of Olive Oatman, a real life 1850's teen who lived a story that she would ...

from BrokenSpines

Well written, readable and scholarly. Margot Mifflin deconstructs each inaccuracy of the Olive Oatman story and gives the reader well-reasoned facts. It's distressing to read how the real life story of Oatman, who appreciated the Mohave way of life, was hijacked by her ghost-writer and presented ...