It Happened on
April 5, 1856
The following articles are the first mentions of Olive Oatman in the American press. Olive Oatman (1837-1903) was an American pioneer whose family was massacred by Native Americans in 1851, leading to her and her sister Mary Ann’s capture; she spent five years with the Mojave tribe, receiving a distinctive blue chin tattoo, before being rescued, becoming a sensation lecturing on her ordeal, marrying, and living the rest of her life with the indelible mark of her captivity.
