The Sand Strider
Miriam bath-Shelomo, or Maryam bint Sulaiman, was a dune-coach driver in the 19th century Ottoman empire, who attained fame for having one of the most dangerous and difficult jobs in that region at the time, tantamount to a stage-coach driver in the U.S. Born as the only child to a poor family of Mizrahi Jews from Yemen, she was forced to take up the family business after the death of her father, but despite prejudice against her for her sex, she quickly earned a reputation as one of the toughest, most adept dune-coach drivers in the world. She was called Sand-Strider in a litany of tongues from Damascus to Musqat. She was illiterate and otherwise uneducated for her entire life but could supposedly speak with great efficacy five languages (Judeo-Arabic, Classical Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Mehri, and Persian), and eventually became proficient in the riding of horses and camels. She eventually earned enough to buy a vineyard near Sana'a, which she left her mother to administer in relative comfort before returning to the driver's life. Her fame had already soared to high heights, but she gained even more notoriety for managing to both spirit away Shahzadeh Cem Sultan when his father was usurped (in the Great British Potentate), and kept him safe by managing to evade trackers and bounty hunters for a full ten years across Arabia and the Mashriq, during which he was gathering support for the great Rebellion of 1888. After the rebellion (wherein there are still-unchallenged reports of her having fought on horse back in the Battle of Konstantiniyye) she retired to her vineyard with a british defector/convert to Islam, whom she had married. She adopted a child and technically her family still owns and operates that vineyard to the present day.
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