Hombrecito's Search
Lasts Fifty Years

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Henry Fountain disappeared when he was eight years old. Henry, and his father Albert, were believed murdered near what is now White Sands National Monument, 1 February 1896; their bodies were never found.

Hombrecito’s War, Spur Award (Finalist) Best First Novel in 2006, assumes Henry survives Albert’s murder. In 1951, Henry now known and loved as Dr. Henry Grace, reveals to Roberta Gonzalez, his nurse and confidant, the secret he and his Apache mentor, Yellow Boy, have kept for over fifty years. It is a story of hard, bloody retribution brought on the men who murdered Henry’s father. After killing these men, Yellow Boy and Henry disappear into the Sierra Madre in northern Mexico. The year is 1902, sixteen years after Geronimo surrendered to General Miles in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona and eight years before the Mexican revolution began in 1910.

Hombrecito’s Search is the story of Henry’s four years in Mexico with Yellow Boy and the Apaches in the Sierra Madre. During this time Henry searches for a kidnapped child, fights deadly enemies, and begins a lifetime search for a woman’s love won and lost. Telling Roberta the story of his early years, Henry discovers that the true love of his life has been in front of his eyes for the past twenty years. Hombrecito’s Search is an odyssey of self-discovery and revelation and of life known by those who came of age in a hard, unforgiving land, where to make a mistake is to die, and the promise of tomorrow is what you make it. It is the kind of myth lived by many, but few survive living on the last western frontier, a frontier that lasted into the third decade of the twentieth century.