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Captivity of the Oatman girls : being an interesting narrative of life among the Apache and Mohave Indians : containing also an interesting account of the massacre of the Oatman family, by the Apache Indians, in 1851, the narrow escape of Lorenzo D. Oatman, the capture of Olive A. and Mary A. Oatman, the death by starvation, of the latter, the five years suffering and captivity of Olive A. Oatman, also, her singular recapture in 1856, as given by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the family, to the author

Title
Captivity of the Oatman girls : being an interesting narrative of life among the Apache and Mohave Indians : containing also an interesting account of the massacre of the Oatman family, by the Apache Indians, in 1851, the narrow escape of Lorenzo D. Oatman, the capture of Olive A. and Mary A. Oatman, the death by starvation, of the latter, the five years suffering and captivity of Olive A. Oatman, also, her singular recapture in 1856, as given by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the family, to the author / R.B. Stratton.
Author
Stratton, R. B. (Royal Byron), 1827-1875
Publication
San Francisco : Whitton, Towne & Co's Excelsior Steam Power Presses, 1857.

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Description
1 online resource (231 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits.
Series Statement
Indigenous Peoples: North America
Uniform Title
Indigenous Peoples: North America.
Subject
  • Oatman family
  • Indians of North America > Captives
Note
  • Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.
OCLC
  • 899258643
  • INDP000234
Author
Stratton, R. B. (Royal Byron), 1827-1875, author.
Title
Captivity of the Oatman girls : being an interesting narrative of life among the Apache and Mohave Indians : containing also an interesting account of the massacre of the Oatman family, by the Apache Indians, in 1851, the narrow escape of Lorenzo D. Oatman, the capture of Olive A. and Mary A. Oatman, the death by starvation, of the latter, the five years suffering and captivity of Olive A. Oatman, also, her singular recapture in 1856, as given by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the family, to the author / R.B. Stratton.
Publisher
San Francisco : Whitton, Towne & Co's Excelsior Steam Power Presses, 1857.
Edition
[Second edition].
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
Indigenous Peoples: North America
Indigenous Peoples: North America.
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