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Inspired by an 1886 photograph titled "Arizona Female Scout" by A Frank Randall, LITTLE DURANGO, a historical novel, purports to be the "memoirs of Gabriela Falcon and a true account of the taming of the Arizona Borderlands (1869-1900)." Gabriela, whose nickname is Little Durango, recounts her interactions with Texas John Slaughter, C S Fly, the Earp brothers, Comandante Felipe Neri, John Clum, General Nelson Miles, and others.

When six-year-old Dolores Hummingbird arrives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, she has a difficult time adjusting. She has never before spent one night away from her parents. Renamed “Cries in her Sleep” by the girls in her dorm, Dolores eventually finds companionship and love in the person of an orphaned Irish girl called “Sky Eyes.” Both girls are exemplary artist. After graduation, they live and paint in Greenwich Village and receive instruction from Robert Henri of the Ashcan School. But Paris is calling them from across the ocean.

While this work is presented as “historical fiction”, all the characters represent are real individuals. No names have been changed. Every incident actually occurred and is related as the author, having done extensive research, believes it to have occurred. Even the personalities and attitudes of the characters are portrayed as accurately as possible.