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Author: Brian McGinty Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806180242 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
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The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy. Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a journey west, believing a prophecy that they would find the fertile “Land of Bashan” at the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers. On February 18, 1851, a band of southwestern Indians attacked the family on a cliff overlooking the Gila River in present-day Arizona. All but three members of the family were killed. The attackers took thirteen-year-old Olive and eight-year-old Mary Ann captive and left their wounded fourteen-year-old brother Lorenzo for dead. Although Mary Ann did not survive, Olive lived to be rescued and reunited with her brother at Fort Yuma. On Olive’s return to white society in 1857, Royal B. Stratton published a book that sensationalized the story, and Olive herself went on lecture tours, telling of her experiences and thrilling audiences with her Mohave chin tattoos. Ridding the legendary tale of its anti-Indian bias and questioning the historic notion that the Oatmans’ attackers were Apaches, McGinty explores the extent to which Mary Ann and Olive may have adapted to life among the Mohaves and charts Olive’s eight years of touring and talking about her ordeal.
Author: Brian McGinty Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806180242 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy. Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a journey west, believing a prophecy that they would find the fertile “Land of Bashan” at the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers. On February 18, 1851, a band of southwestern Indians attacked the family on a cliff overlooking the Gila River in present-day Arizona. All but three members of the family were killed. The attackers took thirteen-year-old Olive and eight-year-old Mary Ann captive and left their wounded fourteen-year-old brother Lorenzo for dead. Although Mary Ann did not survive, Olive lived to be rescued and reunited with her brother at Fort Yuma. On Olive’s return to white society in 1857, Royal B. Stratton published a book that sensationalized the story, and Olive herself went on lecture tours, telling of her experiences and thrilling audiences with her Mohave chin tattoos. Ridding the legendary tale of its anti-Indian bias and questioning the historic notion that the Oatmans’ attackers were Apaches, McGinty explores the extent to which Mary Ann and Olive may have adapted to life among the Mohaves and charts Olive’s eight years of touring and talking about her ordeal.
Author: Margot Mifflin Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803211481 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 277
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"Based on historical records, including the 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 including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society - to her later years as a wealthy banker's wife in Texas."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Ashley Jordan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 110
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Discover Dark Side of American Past and the Shocking History Of The Oatman Sisters Massacre Are you a history lover? Do you like to discover new and obscure facts about historical events that transpired? If so, then you are in for a treat, because this history book offers precisely that. Not many people have heard of the name Olive Oatman, yet her story has been an inspiration for books, poems, television shows, and feature films. Olive Oatman was a young girl who experienced horrible tragedies throughout most of her early life but put them behind her as a young woman and became the first female public speaker of her time. The Captivity Of The Oatman Girls, will take you on a mind-blowing and equally shocking journey through the dark side of American history. After witnessing her family's brutal massacre at age 14, Olive was taken captive by the murderous Yavapai Indians. A year later, she was traded to Mohave Indians, who embraced her as one of their own. That's when she gained her famous "Blue Tattoo," a tattoo that would become a symbol of Native Indian brutality and vileness. At age 19, she was traded once again, but this time to her white people, and she was finally able to tell her story. Compelling narrative and lesser-known facts (compiled from multiple sources, letters and diaries of surviving Oatman family members and their relatives, and witness statements) will show you a whole new dimension and shine a new angle on the events Olive Oatman lived through. Discover everything about Olive Oatman, the American frontier heroine and the girl with the Blue Tattoo, and explore the beginnings of American history - from Olivia's birth to her death and the legacy she left behind. If you are a history lover, then this book is a must-have for your collection. Sit back and revel in the story, which aftermath makes ripples even today. What are you waiting for? Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy Now!
Author: Wendy Lawton Publisher: Moody Publishers ISBN: 1575678497 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
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When 13-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Yavapai Indians, she and her sister are captured. After enduring harsh treatment, they are ransomed by a band of Mohaves. Olive struggles to adjust to her new life, but finds comfort in her faith and in an unexpected friendship. When the time comes for her to return to the white world, she is afraid she will never fit in. But she learns to see the Mohave design tattooed on her chin as a sign of God's love and deliverence, a mark of ransom.
Author: Mike Burns Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816501203 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 192
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Mike Burns--born Hoomothya--was around eight years old in 1872 when the US military murdered his family and as many as seventy-six other Yavapai men, women, and children in the Skeleton Cave Massacre in Arizona. One of only a few young survivors, he was adopted by an army captain and ended up serving as a scout in the US army and adventuring in the West. Before his death in 1934, Burns wrote about the massacre, his time fighting in the Indian Wars during the 1880s, and life among the Kwevkepaya and Tolkepaya Yavapai. His precarious position between the white and Native worlds gives his account a distinctive narrative voice. Because Burns was unable to find a publisher during his lifetime, these firsthand accounts of history from a Native perspective remained unseen through much of the twentieth century, archived at the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott. Now Gregory McNamee has brought Burns's text to life, making this extraordinary tale an accessible and compelling read. Generations after his death, Mike Burns finally gets a chance to tell his story. This autobiography offers a missing piece of Arizona history--as one of the only Native American accounts of the Skeleton Cave Massacre--and contributes to a growing body of history from a Native perspective. It will be an indispensable tool for scholars and general readers interested in the West--specifically Arizona history, the Apache wars, and Yavapai and Apache history and lifeways. Ê
Author: Britton Davis Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803258402 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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Britton Davis's account of the controversial "Geronimo Campaign" of 1885–86 offers an important firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior and the men who finally forced his surrender. Davis knew most of the people involved in the campaign and was himself in charge of Indian scouts, some of whom helped hunt down the small band of fugitives Robert M. Utley's foreword reevaluates the account for the modern reader and establishes its his torical background.
Author: Jerome A. Greene Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806185643 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian border, hoping to find refuge in the land of the White Mother, Queen Victoria. But the army caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and most of his people surrendered. The wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is now legendary, but Bear’s Paw is not the entire story. In fact, nearly three hundred Nez Perces escaped the U.S. Army and fled into Canada. Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians. Drawing on hitherto unexplored Canadian and U.S. sources, including reminiscences of Nez Perce participants, Jerome A. Greene presents an epic story of human endurance under duress. Greene vividly describes the tortuous journey of the small band who managed to elude Colonel Nelson A. Miles’s command. After the escapees crossed the “Medicine Line” into the British Possessions, they found only new trauma. Within a few years, most of them stole back to their homelands in Idaho Territory. Those who remained north of the line faced a difficult and uncertain future. In recent years, Nimiipuu descendants from the United States and Canada have revisited their common past and sought reconciliation. Beyond Bear’s Paw offers new perspectives on the Nez Perces’ struggle for freedom, their hapless rejection, and their ultimate cultural renewal.
Author: Richard J. Codey Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813550459 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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And so, a new chapter in the life of Richard J. Codey, an undertaker's son born and bred in the Garden State, began on the night of August 12, 2004--he knew from that point his life would never be the same . . . and it hasn't been. His memoir is a breezy, humorous, perceptive, and candid chronicle of local and state government from a man who lived among political movers and shakers for more than three decades. Codey became governor of New Jersey, succeeding James McGreevey, who resigned following a homosexual affair--a shattering scandal and set of circumstances that were bizarre, even for the home state of the Sopranos. At once a political autobiography, filled with lively, incisive anecdotes that record how Codey restored respectability and set a record for good politics and good government in a state so often tarnished, this is also the story about a man and his family.
Author: Gregory F. Michno Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786439971 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
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It’s a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne’s face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon-train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledgling Hollywood portrayed the concept of westward migration but, as the evolving industry became more accurate in historical detail, how filmmakers then lost sight of the big picture.
Author: Brian McGinty
Author: Brian McGinty
Author: Royal Byron Stratton
Author: Margot Mifflin
Author: Ashley Jordan
Author: Wendy Lawton
Author: Mike Burns
Author: Britton Davis
Author: Jerome A. Greene
Author: Richard J. Codey
Author: Gregory F. Michno