The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin

The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

Women in the West

Margot Mifflin

269 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography historical history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 forgott...

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