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

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a b Stratton, Royal Byron (1858). Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians (Thirded.). New York, New York: author. ISBN 9781425529710 . Retrieved 3 February 2022– via google books. Original from the New York Public Library Digitized: 2007-12-18 In 1851 Olive Oatman was a 13-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. Lawton, Wendy. Ransom's Mark: A Story Based on the Life of the Young Pioneer Olive Oatman. Moody Publishers, 2003. ISBN 978-0802436382 Mojave Tribe: Culture". Mojave National Preserve. U.S. National Park Service . Retrieved 3 February 2022. They were adopted by the Espanesay and the Aespaneo families. Welcomed by a land full of beauty, wheat fields, and poplar forests. A place where they could sleep every night in the company of a friendly people.

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In 1865 she married a rich rancher. He only asked of her one thing: to forget her past. To leave the lectures behind and put on a veil to cover the tattoo. She did so, letting time go by like that, drop by drop. Year after year. Maybe you’ve come across this story. The protagonist’s serene face draws us in. But then her eyes, and most of all, her wild, tribal tattoo contradict her overall appearance. She is clearly more than a nice, well-educated 19th century lady. artifacts that survived, as well as the stories of those who perished). The tour guide of the excursion also told us of the Halifax explosion of 1917. While I was in the Maritime Museum gift shop I saw this book and I had to buy it. I wanted to know more about it but have trouble reading non-fiction books. Since this was a novel I knew I would get through it without difficulty.

I thought this was a fascinating read about Olive Oatman. Her family decided to travel westward after being counseled to do so by a self-proclaimed prophet, James Brewster. The religion was called Brewsterism and was a spin-off of Mormonism. There were a lot of politics surrounding religion during this timeframe, which influenced a lot of people’s decisions.Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle (October 1998). "The Captive and Her Editor: The Ciphering of Olive Oatman and Royal B. Stratton". Prospects. 23: 171–192. doi: 10.1017/S0361233300006311. Leonard, Elmore. The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories. Delacorte Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0385323864