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| Olive Oatman |
Olive Oatman is considered the first tattooed American white woman. In 1851 Tonto Apaches killed her family in southern Arizona and captured her, at the age of 13, together with her sister, Mary Ann, who was seven years old at the time. After a year of slavery Mojaves bought them. Her sister died during a famine. Olive got from Mojaves a tribal tattoo on her chin during her puberty ritual. In 1856 she was released. The Oatman affair rose huge curiosity and was covered by newspapers.
In 1857 The Reverend Royal B. Stratton wrote her best-seller biography.
In 1982 Elmore Leonard wrote about her a story titled “The Tonto Woman.”
In 1997 Elizabeth Grayson wrote about her a novel titled “So Wide the Sky”
In 2003, Wendy Lawton wrote about her a novel titled “Ransom Mark”.
A small town in Arizona (on Route 66 ) changed its name in 1909 to Oatman, in honor of Olive Oatman.
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