Book description
Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century
who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read
about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them.
The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the
Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin. Annie shames, and
inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The
younger sister Jenny finds a father figure in Doolin, who calls her
Little Britches. Doolin's efforts to live up to the girls' vision of
him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he
waits to be hanged.
