Oatman

One of the saddest cases was that of Royse Oatman, who, en route with his large family, was massacred (1851) on the spot now known as Oatman's Flat, not far below the great bend of the Gila.

The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894

The last 160 miles of Route 66 in Arizona deviate from the Interstate quite a bit -- going through towns like Seligman, Kingman and Oatman and a beautiful stretch of open desert.

Paul Hogarth: My Top 10 Insights From Traveling Route 66 Paul Hogarth 2011

Girl on the high diving horse by Linda Oatman High.

The Diving Horses of Atlantic City » E-Mail 2009

Oatman is cute with its wild burros roaming the streets, but it seems like all 150 of its residents work in the touristy gift shops.

Paul Hogarth: My Top 10 Insights From Traveling Route 66 Paul Hogarth 2011

Girl on the high diving horse by Linda Oatman High.

The Diving Horses of Atlantic City 2009

Oatman is cute with its wild burros roaming the streets, but it seems like all 150 of its residents work in the touristy gift shops.

Paul Hogarth: My Top 10 Insights From Traveling Route 66 Paul Hogarth 2011

Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.

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The last 160 miles of Route 66 in Arizona deviate from the Interstate quite a bit -- going through towns like Seligman, Kingman and Oatman and a beautiful stretch of open desert.

Paul Hogarth: My Top 10 Insights From Traveling Route 66 Paul Hogarth 2011

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family.

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With the Boulder Canyon Project opening a mere hundred miles up the river, Erma enlisted her parents to drive them north from Oatman in their aging seven-passenger Dodge Brothers touring car: Erma, Tom, and their four children, the youngest only five months old.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010