In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family.
She was fully.
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 Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.
The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America.
Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures.
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family