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Claiming ground / Laura Bell.
Van Pelt Library F765.22.B45 A3 2010
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8212
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Laura, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bell, Laura, 1954-.
- Bell, Laura.
- Ranch life--Wyoming.
- Ranch life.
- Young women.
- Local history.
- Ranching.
- Sheepherding.
- Manners and customs.
- Wyoming--Social life and customs.
- Wyoming.
- Sheepherding--Wyoming.
- Ranching--Wyoming.
- Ranches--Wyoming.
- Ranches.
- Wyoming--History, Local.
- Young women--Wyoming--Biography.
- Wyoming--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 241 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "First edition."--title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8212: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Author's ink autograph on title page. With dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 9780307272881
- 0307272885
- OCLC:
- 419798182
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