Olive Oatman & the Blue Tattoo

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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When Olive Oatman was just 14 years old, she was forced to witness the slaughter of nearly every single member of her family. Only she and her 8-year-old sister were spared, and for the next several years, they’d be held as captives. When Olive finally emerged from the desert she was forever marked, both physically and mentally; a young lady not truly belonging to either culture, or as a friend would describe her, a “grieving, unsatisfied woman, who somehow shook one’s belief in civilization.” Who was Olive Oatman? Why did her family decide to head west? What was life like for her in captivity? What about afterward? What did her tattoos mean? Are the rumors about Olive marrying into the tribe true, and did she really leave children behind when she was rescued? This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp! BetterHelp.com/wildwest This episode is sponsored by Manscaped! Get 20% off + free shipping with the code WILDWEST at Manscaped.com Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Merch! https://wildwestextramerch.com/ Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Did Olive Oatman Have Children While She Was A Captive? Bob Boz Bell -http://blog.truewestmagazine.com/2017/06/did-olive-oatman-have-children-while.html Olive Oatman | True West Magazine - https://youtu.be/CNZ7qSJbgaY?si=jKZQy8iQ-vk2lM5T The Blue Tattoo | Margot Mifflin - https://a.co/d/4myZxhN The Oatman Massacre | Brian McGinty - https://a.co/d/8AxyTgo Blood Meridian Christmas Miracle - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jt8o8NKUNYoOnkgX233W8?si=_P7BGPi-RUS69Dg9y3PyGQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	I want you to think back to when you were just 14 years old. What were you doing and what was your
0:34.6	life like? Me, I was a freshman in high school and my biggest challenges were acne, trying to impress girls
0:40.2	and making sure I got my homework done on time.
0:42.5	And I pretty much felled at all three.
0:44.9	That's okay, though.
0:45.8	I had a roof over my head, three square mills a day, and the most traumatic thing I ever had to witness
0:50.4	was, I don't know, maybe seeing one of my fellow classmates getting shoved into a locker.
0:55.3	Sadly, things wouldn't be quite so easy for all of Oatman.
0:58.8	Our family left Illinois back in 1850, bound for what they thought was the promised land,
1:03.9	which, as it turns out, was just an inhospitable desert.
1:06.9	Of course, by the time they realized their mistake, they had already been traveling for months.
1:11.1	Just one man, his heavily pregnant wife, and their seven children.
1:14.4	They recently turned 14-year-old Olive among them.
1:17.5	A family all alone in the middle of nowhere, on the verge of starvation and stranded hundreds of miles from their destination.
1:24.4	And that's when disaster struck.
1:26.9	In the span of just a few short minutes, Olive watched
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