Olive Ann Oatman (September 7, 1837 – March 21, 1903) was a White American woman who was enslaved and later released by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a …

Dec 4, 2024 · In the summer of 1850, the Oatman family headed west with visions of a promised land in the Southwest. Six months later, they were massacred in the Sonoran Desert, and Olive Oatman …

Olive Oatman was a fourteen-year-old girl whose family was killed in 1851 in present-day Arizona by Native Americans, possibly the Yavapai, who captured and enslaved Olive and her sister. A year …

Mar 28, 2025 · Cowboys & Indians speaks with author and historian Margot Mifflin about famous frontier captive Olive Oatman. Women’s history fascinates Margot Mifflin, as you can tell from her body of work.

In the wake of a massacre, an orphaned girl is taken captive and raised by Native Americans on the Western Frontier. She returns to Euro-American society in adulthood, becoming a shrouded mystery …

Jan 24, 2025 · She’s also the namesake of the city of Oatman, Arizona, located on Route 66, near the Colorado River—and near the site where Oatman was released after spending her adolescence with …

Discover the incredible story of Olive Oatman, from her family's tragic encounter in the Oatman Massacre near Gila Bend, Arizona, to her captivity with the Mohave tribe. Learn how Olive Ann …

In 1851, Olive Oatman was captured during a brutal attack on her family. She lived among the Mohave until 1856, becoming a national symbol of survival and frontier hardship.

Dec 12, 2024 · For Mary Ann and Olive Oatman, a new life began that fateful afternoon. They had been spared in the massacre, but they wished they had died on that cursed hilltop where the bodies of …

Olive was born in 1837 in Illinois as the third of seven children of Royce and Mary Ann Oatman. She was still very young when her family joined the newly formed Church of the Latter Day Saints …