Summary of Margot Mifflin's The Blue Tattoo

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Oatman family, who were heading to California, spent their last night on an island in the Gila River in Mexico. They had left their farm in Illinois in May of 1850, joined twenty other families in Missouri in July, and by February of 1851, they were alone in what would become southwestern Arizona. #2 The Oatman family was saved from starvation by a traveling entomologist named John LeConte, who met them on