The Oatman party was near Arizona’s Painted Rock Petroglyph site when they were massacred in 1851. Could that have been …
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Olive Oatman was a 14 year old traveling west in 1851 when Southwest Indians attacked her family’s wagon train in Arizona (then Mexico), capturing Olive and her seven-year-old sister Mary Ann.
Oatman Genesis Is Oatman named for olive, or not?
Did John Moss, friend of Mohave leader Irataba, name the Oatman mine and, hence, the town after Olive Oatman? Or was the…
Heart Gone Wild Did Olive Oatman want to be rescued?
In 1857, Olive Oatman’s ghostwriter said this about her life story: “Much of that dreadful period is unwritten, and will…
Fake News Guru His strange story about Olive Oatman’s grandson is finally unveiled.
In the 1920s, Oatman, Arizona, was a boomtown, and while the discovery of gold and the prosperity of the mines were alwa…
The Oatman Massacre The Oatman Family vs Yavapai Raiders
Roys Oatman and his family have just finished hauling their belongings up a rocky grade to a bluff on the south side of …
The Great Western “She packed two six-shooters, and they all said she shore could use ’em....” — Jeff Ake.
In late August 1890, a detachment from the U.S. Army Quartermasters Department began the arduous task of exhuming the bo…
10 Myths About Olive Oatman The tattooed woman tells all in a new biography that debunks myths circulating since 1857.
Olive Oatman was a 14 year old traveling west in 1…