Garrett Price

William Garrett Price (November 21, 1896 – April 8, 1979) was an American artist, cartoonist and illustrator.

Born in Bucyrus, Kansas,[1] Price was reared on a farm in Saratoga, Wyoming, the son of a horse-and-buggy doctor.

[2] Price's first job was as a reporter-cartoonist for The Kansas City Star, he went on to draw illustrations and a full-page comic strip for the Chicago Tribune.

The love interest was an intrepid girl named Starlight but called "Little Squaw" who was described by Thomas Powers in his 2016 essay on Price in The New York Review of Books as having "kissable lips of the Clara Bow sort" and "White Boy’s full attention".

About halfway thorough its 3-year life of about 150 issues, the strip shifted into a more contemporary if still mythical West, the characters lost their distinctively Indian customs and dress, the strip was renamed Skull Valley, and "Little Squaw" renamed Doris, now wearing jodhpurs and boots.