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5%OFFMargot Mifflin - The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman - 9780803235175 - V9780803235175
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

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Description for The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman Paperback. Biography of Olive Oatman Series: Women in the West. Num Pages: 280 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
2019 Tucson Weekly “40 Essential Arizona Books” pick
2014 One Book Yuma selection 
2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection
2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist
2009 Southwest Book of the Year

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. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Women in the West
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803235175
SKU
V9780803235175
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About Margot Mifflin
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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
"An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-century America."—Times Literary Supplement "An easy, flowing read, one you won't be able to put down."—Christian Science Monitor "The Blue Tattoo is well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction, telling the story of Olive Oatman, ... Read more

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