Claiming Ground: A Memoir

A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year

In 1977, Laura Bell left her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. The only woman in a man's world, she nevertheless found a home among the strange community of drunks and eccentrics, as well as a shared passion for a life of solitude and hard work. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in a memoir that's as breathtaking as it is singular.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 04/19/2011
ISBN: 9780307474643
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.74d