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	Olive Oatman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olive Oatman (1838-1903) was a woman from Illinois famous for her abduction and forced slavery by the Yavapai.
		Oatman dreamed about becoming rich with California gold, despite several warnings that the area was dangerous due to the presence of Yavapai Indians who were always suspicious of whites entering their lands.
		Olive Oatman Fairchild died of a heart attack in 1903, at the age of 65.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olive_Oatman (915 words)

	Oatman, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oatman, Arizona is a mining town in the Black Mountains of Mohave County (elevation 2700'/896 m) which began as a tent camp soon after two prospectors struck a $10 million gold find in 1915, though the area had been already settled for a number of years.
		Oatman was named in honor of Olive Oatman, a young Illinois girl who was kidnapped by the Yavapai Indians and forced to work as a slave.
		Oatman has undergone a renaissance of sorts in recent years thanks to burgeoning worldwide interest in Route 66 and the explosive growth of the nearby gaming town of Laughlin, Nevada which promotes visits to the town as part of the area's total experience.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oatman,_Arizona (740 words)

	Oatman - Arizona Ghost Town
		In this year the town was renamed to Oatman and the name become official the next year when the post office changed the name to Oatman, in honour to Olive Oatman, a white girl who lived with a local Mohave Indian family for 5 years.
		Oatman, once a town with 10.000 citizens was in 1950 reduced to 60, when the town was passed by the new US 66.
		Olive Oatman was on the lecture circuit, where she would have been expected to delicately hint at marriage or sexual indiscretion, as this would have titilated her audiences into a collective swoon.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/az/oatman.html (1226 words)

	Oatman, Arizona, on Route 66
		Oatman has two unusual features going for it: One, it is on the most famous highway in the US - old Route 66, fabled in folklore, story and song, and Two, its free-roaming burros, descendants of some abandoned generations ago by miners.
		The name was changed in 1908, in honor of Olive Oatman, a white girl who lived with Mojave Indians in the 1850's, after surviving an attack by Apaches in which most of her family were killed.
		The population of Oatman eventually reached some 10000 after successive gold strikes between 1908 and 1913, but as usual, the "pay dirt" payed out, the population declined and activities were altered.
	www.azod.com /azoffroad/Archive/2001/Oatman,%20Arizona,%20on%20Route%2066.htm (436 words)

	Oatman, Arizona - on Historic Route 66
		When the United Eastern Mine began operation in 1913, Oatman's population soared to 10'000.
		The town of Vivian was renamed Oatman in 1908 in honor of Olive Oatman, a girl who was held captive by Mohave Indians near Oatman.
		Oatman was reduced in the 1950s to a population of about 60 after it was bypassed by the rerouted U.S. Now the number is up to a few hundred, with many residents making a living selling items to tourists.
	www.ghosttowngallery.com /htme/oatman.htm (137 words)

	Olive Oatman
		Olive Oatman was part of the nine member Royce Oatman family who left the relative safety of a westbound wagontrain in 1851 and headed out alone on the Gila Trail.
		The Oatman massacre and the telling of the story thereafter, did little to stem the tide of westbound immigrants, and to this day, the place whethe Oatman's wagon was attacked is known as Oatman Flats.
		Published accounts of Olive's capture and torture were quickly publicized, and for a while, she displayed her tattooing on a cross country lecture tour.
	www.tattooarchive.com /history/oatman_olive.htm (710 words)

	History and information about Oatman, Arizona
		Although legend says that Oatman was named for the massacre of the Oatman family, it seems more likely it was named for her son John Oatman, a wealthy one-half Mohave Indian miner.
		Olive Oatman was rescued at Ollie Oatman Spring, one-half mile north of the present town of Oatman.
		As Oatman was nearing the end of his resources, Royse Oatman, his wife, and seven children seperated from the train.
	jeff.scott.tripod.com /oatman.html (636 words)

	Cool Springs Area Route 66 Attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Oatman had its origins in 1902 when prospector Ben Taddock was riding along a trail and spotted something sparkling in the sunlight.
		Some speculate that the name came from Olive Oatman, a young girl who was captured by Indians in 1851.
		When Oatman was bypassed by the new alignment of Route 66 in 1952 it almost did go the way of most ghost towns, but it managed to hold on and today is a popular tourist spot.
	www.coolspringsroute66.com /attraction05.htm (169 words)

	Oatman Arizona gold mining town located on historic Route 66
		While traveling with her family they were attacked and most of the family massacred while Olive and her sister Mary were captured by the Apache then eventually traded to the Mohave Indians near the town of Oatman.
		Oatman, Arizona is a gold mining town in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, elevation 2700 ft., which began as a tent camp.
		Oatman they left behind their burros to run wild and our burros of today are the products of those Miners burros.
	www.main-st-emporium.com /oatman.htm (377 words)

	Welcome to the Tucson Citizen
		Olive Oatman became a superstar of her era - the last half of the 1800s - not because of talent, beauty or other special attributes, but by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
		Oatman was captured by a raiding party of Indians on Feb. 18, 1851, between Gila Bend and Yuma, along with a younger sister after the marauders had clubbed to death her parents and four other siblings and seriously injured a fifth they thought was dead.
		Olive Oatman was 13 at the time of her capture, and her younger sister, Mary Ann, was 8.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /news/local/082905a2_lookinapos;back_oatma (673 words)

	Mass Market Appeal (11 of 19)
		Olive is pictured helping her weak and failing sister, as a group of captives surround the helpless girls.
		Olive Oatman was born in Layharp, Illinois is 1836.
		In the 1860s Olive Oatman delivered public lectures on the westward trek of her family and the captivity experience she endured with her sister, Mary.
	bancroft.berkeley.edu /Exhibits/nativeamericans/39.html (767 words)

	Oatman, Arizona - A Living Ghost Town
		Though Oatman is only a shadow of it’s former self, it is well worth a visit to this lively “ghost town” that provides, not only a number of historic buildings and photograph opportunities, but the sights of burros walking the streets, as well as costumed gunfighters and 1890s style ladies strolling.
		Gold was first discovered in Oatman in 1902 by a man named Ben Taddock who, while riding along the trail, saw free gold glittering on the ground and immediately filed a claim.
		Oatman was at its peak as a mining community and had more clout.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /AZ-Oatman.html (646 words)

	olive oil - Columbia Encyclopedia article about olive oil (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Olive oil was used in the ancient world for lighting, in the preparation of food, and as an anointing oil for both ritual and cosmetic purposes.
		Olive oil is also a good source of vitamin E, which is thought to help protect humans against cancer and heart disease.
		She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with ambrosia, then she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very soft, and scented specially for herself--if it were so much as shaken in the bronze-floored house of Jove, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and earth.
	columbia.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /olive+oil (492 words)

	Oatman-Gold Road Chamber of Commerce in Oatman Arizona on historical Route 66
		In its heyday of the early 1900's to the 1940's, Oatman and its two mile away companion town of Goldroad were the largest producers of gold in Arizona.
		Oatman's "Wild" Burro's are the descendants of burro's brought here by the miners and when no longer needed were turned loose.
		I lived in Oatman as a child (about 1963-64) attending the white, four-room schoolhouse before we were "bussed" down to what I called the "river school".
	www.oatmangoldroad.com (856 words)

	Olive City- Arizona Ghost Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Worthwhile to read the story of Olive Oatman for whom the town is supposedly named.
		Olive City only had a reported 19 residents, all male, who consisted of a carpenter, surveyor, mine superintendent, farmer, laborer, and more.
		Olive Cities main existence was from transporting people across the Colorado river.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/az/olivecity.html (66 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Wild West \| Apache Captives' Ordeal
		When Apache warriors swooped down on the defenseless Oatman family in sunbleached Arizona in 1851, the harrowing nightmare was just beginning for Olive Oatman and her little sister Mary Ann.
		Oatman, however, was not a man to quit so close to his goal; a few more days' journey would see him at Fort Yuma, on the California side of the Colorado.
		The Oatmans had one yoke of oxen and two of cattle, and by now all the animals were dying in their traces.
	www.historynet.com /we/bl-apache-captives (1217 words)

	Horizon Air Conditioning of Arizona, Inc.: Bullhead City Points of Interest
		Oatman was named in honor of Olive Oatman, who was kidnapped as a young girl by Mojave Indians and later rescued in 1857 near the current site of the town.
		Oatman is a fun place to visit -- an authentic old western town with burros roaming the streets and gunfights staged on weekends.
		The Oatman Hotel, built in 1902, is the oldest two-story adobe structure in Mojave County and has housed many miners, movie stars, politicians and other scoundrels.
	www.horizonheating.com /bullhead_city_points_of_interest.htm (1169 words)

	Wild Burros?
		It seems that in 1851, thirteen year old Olive Oatman's Mormon family was traveling to southern California to live in a "New Kingdom of the Righteous".
		Olive, her parents, and six brothers and sisters left Independence, Missouri, on August 5, 1850.
		Mary died in the second year of captivity, and Olive was tattooed on her chin, forever marking her as a Navajo slave.
	www.psnw.com /~scotty/wild_burros.htm (511 words)

	Olive Ann Oatman history of captive of the Mohave Indians
		Olive Ann Fairchild, Indian captive and lecturer, daughter of Royse (Royce) and Mary Ann (Sperry) Oatman, was born in Illinois in September 1837 or 1839.
		Olive often feared death, for the Mojave's threatened her whenever whites were nearby or when the tribe went to war; they also made her watch other captives being tortured.
		Though shy and retiring, Olive interested herself in the plight of orphaned children but rarely discussed her own youth as an orphan and Indian captive.
	www.oatmangold.com /olive/olive.htm (519 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1906, Oatman consisted of just tents set up by gold miners and the area around town was sprinkled with small mines.
		In 1851, the Oatman family was traveling by wagon across the desert near where Gila Bend is today.
		Oatman was the last stop in Arizona, before heading into the hot Mohave Desert in California.
	www.arizonan.com /Oatman/History.doc (716 words)

	Oatman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman
		It is widely reported that Oatman was named after Olive Oatman, a thirteen year old girl that had been taken captive when Indians massacred her family in 1851.
		Olive was held captive for another 3 years until largely through Lorenzo's efforts, her release was negotiated.
	www.doney.net /aroundaz/route66/oatman.htm (934 words)

	Olive Oatman
		Royce (Lyman,George, George, John, Johannes), son of Lyman and Lucy (Hartland) Oatman, was born at Middletown Springs, Rutland County, Vermont, in 1809 and was killed by Yavapai Indians 18 February 1851 in New Mexico Territory.
		At some point during the encounter, the Oatman family was attacked by the group, and all were killed except Lorenzo, age 15, who was clubbed and left for dead, Olive, age 13, and Mary Ann, age 7.
		The Indian captivity, 1851-1856, of Olive and her sister Mary Ann, and the efforts of their brother Lorenzo to free them, make up the contents of The Captivity of the Oatman Girls (originally titled Life Among the Indians in the first edition of 1857).
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ga/topic/indian/oliveoatman.htm (1561 words)

	Large Print Reviews - The Captivity of the Oatman Girls
		Olive's descriptions of life among the Indians also shows the low value that women appeared to have had in the Mojave culture.
		Olive was to bare the scars of her captivity, for life, not just emotionally, but physically as well.
		Shortly after Olive was released, the two surviving members of the family retold their accounts to R. Stratton who actually composed this book, which was originally published in 1857.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /oatmangirls.html (991 words)

	The Cultured Traveler Newsletter
		Between Kingman and Oatman, Route 66 is a narrow, paved two-lane road that winds through canyons so spectacular that it becomes difficult to keep your eyes on the road.
		The community was named in honor of Olive Oatman, a young girl kidnapped by Mojave Indians in 1851.
		The Oatman Hotel, built in 1902, is the oldest two-story adobe structure in Mojave County.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /ARCHIVES/FEB2006/Road_Trip.htm (955 words)

	Oatman, Arizona
		Oatman began about 90 years ago as a mining tent camp and quickly became a flourishing gold-mining center.
		Oatman was served by a narrow gauge rail line between 1903 and 1905 that ran 17 miles to the Colorado river near Needles, California.
		She is still a fixture in downtown Oatman operating three retail establishments -- stop in and visit her.
	www.desertusa.com /oatman/du_oatman.html (707 words)

	The Believer - A Blank Human Canvas
		Oatman was widely photographed and interviewed, and the Reverend Royal B. Stratton’s 1857 biography of her, Life Among the Indians (one of the last captivity tales before Native Americans were finally trounced, east to west, beyond the point of captive-taking) became a best-seller; it’s been in print almost continually since then.
		Oatman’s tattoo pointed to both the life she was initially forced to live and the one she ultimately chose to embrace.
		Oatman, who was more than a victim and less than a heroine, is remarkable as a survivor and an adaptor in a nation of shifting boundaries and clashing cultures.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200512/?read=article_mifflin (4609 words)

	Oatman, Arizona
		Named after a woman, Olive Oatman, who was captured and later released by the Mohave Indians, Oatman is still going today.
		The stars of Oatman fame are the wild Burro's which roam the streets daily and look for handouts.
		Oatman, Arizona is located on historic Route 66, Approximately 27 miles west of Kingman, close to Bullhead City, Arizona, Laughlin, Nevada, and Needles, California.
	www.outlawwillie.com /oat.htm (179 words)

	Brontë
		In 1851, two girls witnessed the murder of their parents, two sisters, and two brothers, with a third brother presumed dead; the Oatman girls were taken captive by Apache (Yavapai) Indians and later traded to the Mohave for two horses and some blankets and beads.
		The Captivity of the Oatman Girls represents a complex blend of the genres of the Indian captivity narrative and the historical novel.
		Olive was tattooed permanently on her face by the Mohave tribe and an engraved illustration of her face is used as the frontispiece of the narrative.
	www.uiowa.edu /~mmla/Abstracts2005/nativerepresentations.htm (1021 words)

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