THE BLUE TATTOO: The Life of Olive Oatman

Tells the harrowing story of Olive Oatman, a forgotten heroine of frontier America. 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 Mohaves, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. Then, at the age of nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society. Illus.