Claiming Ground

Laura Bell

eBook - 2010

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. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the strangest member of this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics. So begins her unabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materials with which to create a home and family of her own. Yet only through time and distance does she acquire the wisdom that allows her to see the love she lived through and sometimes left behind.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. Brimming with careful insight and written in a spare, radiant prose, her story is a heart-wrenching ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and the peculiar sweetness...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Laura Bell
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Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB0036S4CMU
Release Date3/9/2010
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307592897
Release Date3/9/2010