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About the Author

Dorothy Ruth “Tiny” (Huston) Striegel graduated from Cañon City High School (CCHS) with the class of 1938. After graduation, Tiny took additional classes at CCHS and later took training at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, graduating as a registered radiologic and laboratory technician. After further training, she also became a licensed practical nurse and worked many years in hospitals in Missouri and Colorado. Tiny also took courses at Pueblo Community College and attended a few art workshops with local artists Margaret Webb and Mickey McGuire, a well-known Western artist. She has had no other formal training in art or writing. Tiny has self-published two softback books of poetry: Memoirs in Rhyme and My Second Book of Rhymes. In 2004, she wrote People, Pets and Places, a hardback book published by Vantage Press Inc. of New York. She writes a variety of poetry but prefers the nostalgic and humorous. Tiny was married to John T. “Ted” Gaines in 1942 and was left a widow after four years of marriage. Ted was a student and also served in the Army Air Corps. She later married Ervin “Ernie” Striegel, who for many years worked as an automobile parts salesman and was well-known for his business as a gunsmith. Tiny and Ernie assisted her father, Les Huston, for several years at the Oklahoma Geology Camp. After Les’s death in 1976, Tiny and Ernie maintained and cared for the geology camp for fourteen years before donating it in 1990 to Oklahoma State University Foundation in Stillwater, Oklahoma. After Ernie’s death in 1997, Tiny remained involved with the camp as a mediator and helper, keeping the contact between Colorado and Oklahoma.