Includes biographical sketches, references copied from articles and books, and genealogical data. Also includes copies of letters written by Ann Pitchforth; and information on two of her children, Samuel Pitchforth and Mercy Ann Pitchforth Jenkins, who settled in Nephi, Utah.

This volume compiles the history of the Roys Boise Oatman family, their journey west to California, their massacre in 1851, and the story of the surviving children after the massacre: Olive Ann Oatman and Lorenzo Dow Oatman. The volume also includes those involved in the rescue of Olive Ann Oatman. The volume includes copies of letters, photographs, maps, and an index at the end of the volume. (238 pp.)