Editor's note: Take a look back into the archives of The Dallas Morning News. The tattoo on Olive Oatman's chin would stand out even today, but in the late 1800s, it made the Sherman resident a ...

The town of Oatman, Arizona, is an eclectic little stop along the old route of Highway 66 in Western Arizona, mostly a tourist stop nowadays. It's named for Olive Oatman, a young girl who, at the age ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this photograph of Olive Oatman speaks volumes. Her story is remarkable. In 1850, she and her family left their home in Illinois and headed west to California.

About a century and a half ago, some Native American tribes of the Southwest used facial tattoos as spiritual rites of passage. Through a series of strange tragedies (and some possible triumphs), a ...

March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate, I encourage you to read a book written by — or, better yet, by and about — a woman. I started this year’s celebration by doing just that, with MARGOT ...

Thirteen-year-old Olive Ann Oatman was excited about the adventure that lay before her as she helped her mother plan for the long journey from Illinois to the promised haven of Bashan that Mormon ...

With its frontier false fronts, wooden balconies and adobe buildings, Oatman, Ariz., looks the part of a classic, Old West town. In fact, the town is so typical of the genre that several of its ...