The Tattooed Lady

Nora and her father were travelling through the american west when they were captured. They encounter sitting bull, who was famous for his involvement in the battle of little bighorn. Sitting bull apparently wants a tattoo - so he ties nora to a tree with needles attached. After a full year of this, he finally decides he can't go on. He breaks his needles, they kill him. Nora is blind from the pain. She regains her vision, and she goes on to fame ad fortune as ta texas lady. We know that nora was born in london and then came to new york and spent time working as a maid before eventually emerging as a tattooed