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.
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.
Margot Mifflin is an author and journalist who writes about women, art, and contemporary culture. The author of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, she has written for many publications, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, the Believer, and Salon.com. Mifflin is a professor in the English Department of Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and directs the Arts and Culture program at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she also teaches.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Emigrant Song 1. Quicksand 2. Indian Country 3. "How Little We Thought What Was Before Us" 4. A Year with the Yavapais 5. Lorenzo's Tale 6. Becoming Mohave 7. Deeper 8. "There Is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away" 9. Journey to Yuma 10. Hell's Outpost 11. Rewriting History in Gassburg, Oregon 12. Captive Audiences 13. "We Met as Friends, Giving the Left Hand in Friendship" 14. Olive Fairchild, Texan Epilogue: Oatman's Literary Half-Life Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Emigrant Song 1. Quicksand 2. Indian Country 3. "How Little We Thought What Was Before Us" 4. A Year with the Yavapais 5. Lorenzo's Tale 6. Becoming Mohave 7. Deeper 8. "There Is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away" 9. Journey to Yuma 10. Hell's Outpost 11. Rewriting History in Gassburg, Oregon 12. Captive Audiences 13. "We Met as Friends, Giving the Left Hand in Friendship" 14. Olive Fairchild, Texan Epilogue: Oatman's Literary Half-Life Notes Bibliography Index
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