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  • Mary Ann Died While In Captivity With The Mohaves on Random Fascinating Stories Behind Girl With The Mohave Tattoo

    (#6) Mary Ann Died While In Captivity With The Mohaves

    Although the two girls lived a relatively comfortable life with the Mohaves, the desert was never without its dangers. In 1855, a drought swept through the region. The resulting famine took the lives of many Mohaves and Mary Ann. Sho would have been around 10 years old.

  • The Town Of Oatman, AZ, Is Named In Her Honor on Random Fascinating Stories Behind Girl With The Mohave Tattoo

    (#11) The Town Of Oatman, AZ, Is Named In Her Honor

    The small town of Oatman, AZ, started out as nothing more than a cluster of miners living in tents. It quickly expanded once gold was discovered nearby, but only to roughly 3,500 people. Today, it's preserved as an authentic "Old West Town," complete with staged gun fights and even wild burros roaming the streets. The town has used its history as a tourist attraction to survive several devastating blows, such as a fire in the 1920s and the loss of Route 66 in the '60s.

  • They Were Traded To The Mohave Tribe, Where They Were Given Their Tattoos on Random Fascinating Stories Behind Girl With The Mohave Tattoo

    (#4) They Were Traded To The Mohave Tribe, Where They Were Given Their Tattoos

    After a year as slaves, Olive and Mary Ann were traded to the Mohaves. They lived a much better life with their new captors, not as slaves but more like adopted tribal members. That's where Olive received the tattoo that she would carry for the rest of her life. Some claim that the tattoos marked them as slaves, but in reality, tattooing of this nature was a Mohave tradition and it may have been done to the girls to signify their membership in the tribe

  • Olive And Mary Ann Had Opportunities To Escape, But Didn't on Random Fascinating Stories Behind Girl With The Mohave Tattoo

    (#5) Olive And Mary Ann Had Opportunities To Escape, But Didn't

    The two girls seem to have assimilated well among the Mohave, blending in with their new adopted family and forming strong bonds with their new mother and sister. They were treated far better than they were with the Yavapai, and were no longer used as slaves. When a group of around 200 white surveyors came and spent a week with the Mohave, they had many chances to reveal their identities and escape back to white settlements, but they didn't. Some believe that they remained silent because they thought the new family they had had grown accustomed to was all they had left in the world.

  • Olive Eventually Reunited With Her Brother on Random Fascinating Stories Behind Girl With The Mohave Tattoo

    (#8) Olive Eventually Reunited With Her Brother

    The 15-year-old Lorenzo may have been left for dead back in 1850, but he somehow survived the attack on his family with a nasty head wound. He eventually made it back to the other families that had stayed behind at the village of Maricopa Wells. The fellow settlers helped him return to the scene of the attack, and they gave his family as close to a proper burial as they could. 

    Lorenzo never stopped looking for Olive and Mary Ann, and when Olive was released in 1856, the two siblings were finally reunited. They met up in the nearby town of Fort Yuma, and the event made it to the national headlines. They moved to Oregon soon afterward and lived together until Olive met and married a Texas rancher.

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    (#12) The TV Show "Hell On Wheels" Featured A Character Loosely Based On Olive Oatman

    The AMC television series Hell on Wheels featured a character named Eva who was loosely based on Olive Oatman's life story—very loosely. While the character was kidnapped by the Yavapai and received a similar face tattoo to Olive, the fictional character's life took quite a different turn after escaping from captivity. In spite of the loose nature of the character profile, AMC still acknowledges the true story with a profile about Olive Oatman on their official blog

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There are many tragic stories in the cruel Westward Movement history, the most famous of which is the story of Olive Oatman, a girl with a blue tattoo. She was lived in Mohave town in Arizona and has a blue tattoo on her chin. As a white, she has a close relationship with Native Indians, which made her the focus of American society more than 100 years ago. 

Olive Oatman was raised by Mohave Indian after her family was massacred, which was destined to experience a tragic and complicated life. After leaving Mohave Indian, Oliver wrote a memoir detailing her experience. She claimed that she was tattooed as a slave, but her tattoo was just a religious symbol. The random tool shares the stories of the woman with the Mohave tattoo.

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