Captivity of the Oatman girls
Subtitle: being an interesting narrative of life among the Apache and Mohave Indians
By: R.B. Stratton.
Contributors: Oatman, Olive Ann.; Oatman, Lorenzo D., b. 1836.
Publisher: Whitton, Towne & Co's Excelsior Steam Power Presses
Published: 1857
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Oatman, Olive Ann -- Captivity.; Oatman, Mary Ann, d. 1852 -- Captivity.; Oatman family.; Indian captivities -- Southwest, New.; Apache Indians.; Mohave Indians.
Notes: Wagner-Camp (4th ed.), 294:2
"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."
Pref. to the second ed., p. ix-x.