Claiming ground / Laura Bell.

Title:

ISBN:

9780307272881

Personal Author:

Bell, Laura, 1954-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Physical Description:

241 pages ; 22 cm

Contents:

Migration -- Coon Creek Camp -- McCullough Peaks -- Trailing -- Burnt Mountain -- Hidden -- Medicine Wheel -- Highway -- Murdi -- On the Diamond Trail -- Gathering -- Shell Creek -- Home -- Leaving -- The stone school -- Jenny -- Moving camp -- Heart Mountain -- Claiming ground.

Summary:

In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.

Personal Subject:

Bell, Laura, 1954-

Geographic Term:

Wyoming -- Social life and customs.

Wyoming -- History, Local.

Wyoming -- Biography

Subject Term:

Ranch life--Wyoming.

Sheepherding--Wyoming.

Ranching--Wyoming.

Ranches--Wyoming

Young women--Wyoming -- Biography.