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The Blue Tattoo - 9780803235175
Un libro in lingua di Margot Mifflin edito da Bison Books, 2011
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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 Mohaves, 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 instant celebrity, but the price of fame was high and the pain of her ruptured childhood lasted a lifetime.
Based on historical records, including letters and diaries of Oatman's friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life from her childhood in Illinois, through the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society, to her later years as a wealthy banker's wife in Texas. This Bison Books edition features a postscript by the author with a newly discovered letter from Oatman.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Blue Tattoo
- Sottotitolo: The Life of Olive Oatman
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Margot Mifflin
- Editore: Bison Books
- Collana: Bison Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Aprile '11
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Indian captivities Southwest, New History 19th century Apache Indians History 19th century Yavapai Indians History 19th century
- Pagine: 268
- ISBN-10: 0803235178
- EAN-13: 9780803235175