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Sharron S. Davidson is a former attorney and member of a multigenerational New Mexico ranching family. Her grandfather managed one of the great working ranches in the American Southwest for twenty-three years and wrote a Wrangler Award-winning memoir about the experience.
She grew up with the ranch in her bones — the sky, the light, the horses, the people. La Conquistadora is fiction, but its world is real. The marble-top sideboard, the silver bell, the thick vine on the portal, the three-point crown brand — all of it was there. She did not invent this world. She remembered it.
She earned degrees from the University of New Mexico and Texas Woman’s University before completing a Juris Doctorate at South Texas College of Law. She practiced law for two decades. But the law was her career. The land was her life. And telling stories was what she had always done.
“I should have read a book about how to write a book before I wrote a book.”
She lives in New Mexico. La Conquistadora is her first novel.
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Sharron at nineteen — the same age as Sophie when the novel begins.
Sharron in New Mexico.
The ranch that inspired La Conquistadora is a real place — a vast Mexican land grant in northeastern New Mexico, hundreds of thousands of acres of mesa and canyon and grassland. It has been there for centuries. The characters are fiction. The country is not.
The remuda coming in to headquarters — drawing by Robert Lougheed
She did not invent this world. She remembered it.
