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Top 25 Margot Mifflin Quotes (2025 Update)

Margot Mifflin Quote: “Its prickly commander, Samuel P. Heintzelman, a short, bearded West Point graduate who had served in the Mexican-American War and later became a major general in the Civil War, didn’t want to be there and was preoccupied with making extra cash through the thriving ferry service.”

1. “Its prickly commander, Samuel P. Heintzelman, a short, bearded West Point graduate who had served in the Mexican-American War and later became a major general in the Civil War, didn’t want to be there and was preoccupied with making extra cash through the thriving ferry service.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “Two of them led the way north into the Mohave Valley, past the Needles, a trio of mountain peaks on the east side of the Colorado. This was where the main body of the tribe resided – including Olive and Mary Ann.”

2. “Two of them led the way north into the Mohave Valley, past the Needles, a trio of mountain peaks on the east side of the Colorado. This was where the main body of the tribe resided – including Olive and Mary Ann.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “Olive’s freedom to speak her mind so pointedly to the Mohaves – something that would surely have backfired with the Yavapais – confirms her greater sense of freedom within her new tribe.”

3. “Olive’s freedom to speak her mind so pointedly to the Mohaves – something that would surely have backfired with the Yavapais – confirms her greater sense of freedom within her new tribe.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its “jumping-off places” – settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.”

4. “In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its “jumping-off places” – settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “In El Monte Lorenzo saw a letter his uncle Asa had written to the Richardsons, asking if the boy would be traveling back to Illinois.”

5. “In El Monte Lorenzo saw a letter his uncle Asa had written to the Richardsons, asking if the boy would be traveling back to Illinois.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “A single pastime carried Olive through her early repatriation: given thread and fabric, she quickly remembered how to sew, and did so in a therapeutic frenzy.”

6. “A single pastime carried Olive through her early repatriation: given thread and fabric, she quickly remembered how to sew, and did so in a therapeutic frenzy.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “In all, Whipple would meet five leaders. On his last day in the valley, they came together to inform him they had not only held a national council and approved mapping a road through their country but had also chosen a guide to show his men the best route to the Pacific.”

7. “In all, Whipple would meet five leaders. On his last day in the valley, they came together to inform him they had not only held a national council and approved mapping a road through their country but had also chosen a guide to show his men the best route to the Pacific.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “Espaniole was most likely a kohota, or festival chief, who was responsible for receiving captives, planning dances, and overseeing celebrations.”

8. “Espaniole was most likely a kohota, or festival chief, who was responsible for receiving captives, planning dances, and overseeing celebrations.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “By mid-afternoon, starving and dehydrated in the heat, he passed out on a plateau in the simmering sun. A few hours later he opened his eyes to an audience of gray wolves that came sniffing within arm’s reach. He jumped to his feet, swatting one on the nose, and yelled at them – surprising himself at the sound of his own voice. They backed off as he hurled a stone at another, then they scattered and returned to howl mournfully at him.”

9. “By mid-afternoon, starving and dehydrated in the heat, he passed out on a plateau in the simmering sun. A few hours later he opened his eyes to an audience of gray wolves that came sniffing within arm’s reach. He jumped to his feet, swatting one on the nose, and yelled at them – surprising himself at the sound of his own voice. They backed off as he hurled a stone at another, then they scattered and returned to howl mournfully at him.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “The Oatman massacre was evidently inspired by the Yavapais’ typical late-winter hardship, exacerbated by the previous year’s bone-cracking drought.”

10. “The Oatman massacre was evidently inspired by the Yavapais’ typical late-winter hardship, exacerbated by the previous year’s bone-cracking drought.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “In the coming years, Irataba emerged – from the perspective of the federal government – as the leader and spokesperson not only of the Mohaves, but of all the Colorado River tribes.”

11. “In the coming years, Irataba emerged – from the perspective of the federal government – as the leader and spokesperson not only of the Mohaves, but of all the Colorado River tribes.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “But in 1856, Fort Yuma was hellish for reasons beyond the heat. It was bedeviled by blinding dust storms and prone to Indian attacks. The barracks were plagued with ants, gnats, and, when the river was high, mosquitoes, and the toilets were open trenches heaped with dirt and lime to squelch the stench.”

12. “But in 1856, Fort Yuma was hellish for reasons beyond the heat. It was bedeviled by blinding dust storms and prone to Indian attacks. The barracks were plagued with ants, gnats, and, when the river was high, mosquitoes, and the toilets were open trenches heaped with dirt and lime to squelch the stench.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “That fall in San Francisco, Lorenzo worked for a wholesaler until he was forced to quit after hurting his back lifting goods. When Dr. Henry Hewit moved back east to be with his family in Connecticut, Lorenzo was orphaned all over again at sixteen.”

13. “That fall in San Francisco, Lorenzo worked for a wholesaler until he was forced to quit after hurting his back lifting goods. When Dr. Henry Hewit moved back east to be with his family in Connecticut, Lorenzo was orphaned all over again at sixteen.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “Espaniole later said he had hoped the Mohaves’ good treatment of Olive would encourage the whites, in turn, to treat the Mohaves well.”

14. “Espaniole later said he had hoped the Mohaves’ good treatment of Olive would encourage the whites, in turn, to treat the Mohaves well.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “Olive later said her release provoked mixed reactions from the rest of the tribe.”

15. “Olive later said her release provoked mixed reactions from the rest of the tribe.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “The investigating officer, Col. George Nauman, went to Fort Yuma, verified that Burke had never entertained – much less refused – such a proposal, and the two sent runners out to local tribes promising ransoms for the white captives. Word arrived that one of the girls, probably Mary Ann, had died, and Lorenzo, with the support of his neighbors in El Monte, petitioned Governor J. Neely Johnson in Sacramento, asking for help in rescuing Olive.”

16. “The investigating officer, Col. George Nauman, went to Fort Yuma, verified that Burke had never entertained – much less refused – such a proposal, and the two sent runners out to local tribes promising ransoms for the white captives. Word arrived that one of the girls, probably Mary Ann, had died, and Lorenzo, with the support of his neighbors in El Monte, petitioned Governor J. Neely Johnson in Sacramento, asking for help in rescuing Olive.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “Espaniole instructed Topeka to travel with Olive, either to ease her journey, to collect her ransom, or both, along with Francisco’s brother, two cousins, and Musk Melon, who lived near Olive.”

17. “Espaniole instructed Topeka to travel with Olive, either to ease her journey, to collect her ransom, or both, along with Francisco’s brother, two cousins, and Musk Melon, who lived near Olive.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “But the very pattern Olive wore appears on a ceramic figurine of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century that displays traditional Mohave face painting, tattoo, beads, and clothing.”

18. “But the very pattern Olive wore appears on a ceramic figurine of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century that displays traditional Mohave face painting, tattoo, beads, and clothing.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “They were described variously as majestic, Herculean, and as one of the Smithsonian Institution’s first ethnographers put it, “as fine a race of men physically, perhaps, as there is in existence.”14 They painted their faces coal black, with a red streak from the hairline to the chin, and were known for their tattooing and face painting, on both men and women, which communicated everything from military might to grief over the loss of a child.”

19. “They were described variously as majestic, Herculean, and as one of the Smithsonian Institution’s first ethnographers put it, “as fine a race of men physically, perhaps, as there is in existence.”14 They painted their faces coal black, with a red streak from the hairline to the chin, and were known for their tattooing and face painting, on both men and women, which communicated everything from military might to grief over the loss of a child.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “For these galas, the Mohaves came together wearing bark masks and face paint or mud-slathered hair, marched upriver to the feasting area, built a fire, and danced until midnight. The next day they ate. The women arrived carrying soup, cakes, or boiled vegetables in dishes and baskets on their heads. Their cakes were made of ground wheat and boiled pumpkin rolled into a dough that was placed in the sand, covered with a leaf, and baked.”

20. “For these galas, the Mohaves came together wearing bark masks and face paint or mud-slathered hair, marched upriver to the feasting area, built a fire, and danced until midnight. The next day they ate. The women arrived carrying soup, cakes, or boiled vegetables in dishes and baskets on their heads. Their cakes were made of ground wheat and boiled pumpkin rolled into a dough that was placed in the sand, covered with a leaf, and baked.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “The harvest of 1855 was bad – fatally so. After a spring drought prevented the banks of the river from overflowing, the crops came up late and the yield was paltry.”

21. “The harvest of 1855 was bad – fatally so. After a spring drought prevented the banks of the river from overflowing, the crops came up late and the yield was paltry.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “Though he had earned two hundred dollars from a crop and was not working at the time, Lorenzo declined his uncle’s invitation to return to Illinois because he was considering going to school.”

22. “Though he had earned two hundred dollars from a crop and was not working at the time, Lorenzo declined his uncle’s invitation to return to Illinois because he was considering going to school.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “As captives who were not members of the tribe, Olive and Mary Ann were spared the procedure. The Yavapais didn’t care whether they mounted the stairway to heaven; their souls could wander indefinitely.”

23. “As captives who were not members of the tribe, Olive and Mary Ann were spared the procedure. The Yavapais didn’t care whether they mounted the stairway to heaven; their souls could wander indefinitely.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “When they weren’t farming alongside the other Mohaves, the girls spent their first summer with the tribe gathering mesquite, collecting wild vegetables with the women, or swimming naked in the Colorado.”

24. “When they weren’t farming alongside the other Mohaves, the girls spent their first summer with the tribe gathering mesquite, collecting wild vegetables with the women, or swimming naked in the Colorado.”

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Margot Mifflin Quote: “When Grinnell approached her, she cried quietly into her hands but let him lead her to the water, where she washed and changed into the calico dress an officer’s wife had sent from the fort. Now, free of face paint and hair dye, and wearing Anglo garb, she was ready – or at least dressed – for her return.”

25. “When Grinnell approached her, she cried quietly into her hands but let him lead her to the water, where she washed and changed into the calico dress an officer’s wife had sent from the fort. Now, free of face paint and hair dye, and wearing Anglo garb, she was ready – or at least dressed – for her return.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “The Mohaves were friendly with the Yavapais and the Quechans; enemies of the Pimas, the Maricopas, and the Cocopas; and merely tolerant of the Chemehuevis, who in the 1830s had moved into the valley below them on the western side of the river – an area the Mohaves yielded to them because they believed departed spirits lived there, making it dangerous.”

26. “The Mohaves were friendly with the Yavapais and the Quechans; enemies of the Pimas, the Maricopas, and the Cocopas; and merely tolerant of the Chemehuevis, who in the 1830s had moved into the valley below them on the western side of the river – an area the Mohaves yielded to them because they believed departed spirits lived there, making it dangerous.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “She gave her name as “Olivino,” recalled her father’s surname as “Oatman” and said she’d had six siblings, mentioning Lucy and Lorenzo by name. She identified her abductors as Apaches. Asked if they had treated her well, she said, “No. They whipped me.” In response to the same question about the Mohaves, she “seemed pleased,” noted Burke, and answered, “Very well.”

27. “She gave her name as “Olivino,” recalled her father’s surname as “Oatman” and said she’d had six siblings, mentioning Lucy and Lorenzo by name. She identified her abductors as Apaches. Asked if they had treated her well, she said, “No. They whipped me.” In response to the same question about the Mohaves, she “seemed pleased,” noted Burke, and answered, “Very well.”

— Margot Mifflin

Margot Mifflin Quote: “Traveling with more than a hundred men, from engineers, cartographers, and geologists to astronomers, meteorologists, and botanists, as well as soldiers and guides, Whipple trudged through present-day Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, into what would become Arizona, on a path that vaguely foreshadowed today’s Route 66. The group was guided along the way by Indians – Creeks, Shawnees, and Zunis. But it was the Mohaves who would lead Whipple on the final leg of the journey.2 On.”

28. “Traveling with more than a hundred men, from engineers, cartographers, and geologists to astronomers, meteorologists, and botanists, as well as soldiers and guides, Whipple trudged through present-day Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, into what would become Arizona, on a path that vaguely foreshadowed today’s Route 66. The group was guided along the way by Indians – Creeks, Shawnees, and Zunis. But it was the Mohaves who would lead Whipple on the final leg of the journey.2 On.”

— Margot Mifflin

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