Prof. Margot Mifflin’s biography of Olive Oatman, a 19th century frontierswoman known for the blue chin tatoo she acquired after she was kidnapped by one native tribe and adopted by another, was recently released by University of Nebraska Press. The Blue Tatoo: The Life of Olive Oatman tells the story of Oatman from her early childhood in Fulton, Illinois to her teen years in southwest Arizona with the Yavapai and Mohave Indians to her life in Victorian society after she was ransomed by the U.S. Army.