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(More customer reviews)Olive Oatman entered adolescence as a typical pioneer girl on a westbound wagon train and ended it as one of America's most curious anthropological flukes--a white Indian with a facial tattoo, suspended between cultures.Though much has been written about her, this is the most thoroughly researchedtreatment of her saga published to date.McGinty brings new information on Oatman to light (including that the Reverend who wrote her biography was probably a fraud), poses provocative questions and sorts out the various Indian tribes involved in her story.The book is cleanly written (it contains none of the recycled phrases that afflict so much Oatmanalia) and strikes a nice balance between conclusions based on new research and theories that are avowedly speculative.
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The Oatman Massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy, in which all but three members of a Mormon family were murdered by southwestern Indians. The attackers took thirteen-year-old Olive and eight-year-old Mary Ann captive and left their wounded fourteen-year-old brother Lorenzo for dead. After about a year, Olive and Mary Ann were traded to a Mohave Indian community, but only Olive lived to be rescued and reunited with her brother at Fort Yuma five years later.
Using diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, as well as recent studies of nineteenth-century southwestern Indian peoples, McGinty dispels myths and corrects omissions in earlier sensationalized versions of the story.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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