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A Mohave war reminiscence, 1854 - 1880.
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ISBN: 0520094778 Year: 1973 Volume: 10 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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The blue tattoo
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ISBN: 1282130781 9786612130786 0803224486 9780803224483 9780803254350 0803254350 9781282130784 0803211481 9780803211483 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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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 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. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society. She became an i

Disaster At The Colorado
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ISBN: 1283266873 9786613266873 0874214610 0874214378 0874214386 9780874214611 9780874214383 9780874214376 9781283266871 Year: 2002 Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press,

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Across north-central New Mexico and Arizona, along the line of Route 66, now Interstate 40, there first ran a little-known wagon trail called Beale's Wagon Road, after Edward F. Beale, who surveyed it for the War Department in 1857. This survey became famous for employing camels. Not so well known is the fate of the first emigrants who the next year attempted to follow its tracks. The government considered the 1857 exploration a success and the road it opened a promising alternative route to California but expected such things as military posts and developed water supplies to b

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