Oatman story, ca. 1851-1903.

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Oatman story, ca. 1851-1903.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51605836

This volume compiles the history of the Roys Boise Oatman family, their journey west to California, their massacre in 1851, and the story of the surviving children after the massacre: Olive Ann Oatman and Lorenzo Dow Oatman. The volume also includes those involved in the rescue of Olive Ann Oatman. The volume includes copies of letters, photographs, maps, and an index at the end of the volume. (238 pp.).

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Harold B. Lee Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7641437

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Oatman family.

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Clark, Henry B. (Henry Balsley), 1930-

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Epithet: of Spinkhill in the parish of Eckington, co. Derby, yeoman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x0000ef ...

Oatman, Olive Ann

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Clark, Doris Ann Cloward, 1932-

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On 18 February 1851, the Roys Boise Oatman family, en route to California, were attacked by Apache Indians (some sources claim it was the Yavapais) on the Gila River in Arizona. Olive and her sister Mary Oatman were captured, their brother Lorenzo left for dead, and the rest of the family massacred. Olive and Mary lived for a year at a village near the site of modern Congress, Arizona, and then were sold to a Mojave chief near Needles, California, after a march of several hundred miles. Their ch...

Sperry family.

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