Life among the Indians, or: : The captivity of the Oatman girls among the Apache & 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. & Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the family, to the author, R. B. Stratton

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Life among the Indians, or: : The captivity of the Oatman girls among the Apache & 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. & Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the family, to the author, R. B. Stratton

Title remainder

The captivity of the Oatman girls among the Apache & 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;

Statement of responsibility

as given by Lorenzo D. & Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the family, to the author, R. B. Stratton

Instantiates

• Life among the Indians, or: : The captivity of the Oatman girls among the Apache & 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;

Publication

• San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, 1935

Note

• First edition, 1857, has title "Life among the Indians; being an interesting narrative of the captivity of the Oatman girls ..." The 2d ed., 1857, and later printings have title "Captivity of the Oatman girls ..."
• "Five hundred & fifty copies of this book designed and printed by the Grabhorn press, May, 1935. The illustrations are engraved on wood by Mallette Dean."
• Introduction by Lindley Bynum

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

209 p.

Other physical details

illus. (map), plates.

Record ID

3254261

System control number

• (OCoLC)00653168
• ucoclc653168