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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...
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Pub. Date
c2012
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Cat Urbigkit journeys alone to spend a season on Wyoming's open range, tending to a flock of domestic sheep as they give birth amid the challenges of nature, from severe weather to a wealth of predators. Her only companions are the guardian animals, big dogs and a pair of burros named Bill and Hillary, that repeatedly prove their worth in their devotion to protecting the flock. Urbigkit offers interesting reflections on the role of pastoralists around...
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Pub. Date
?2012
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An intriguing work that details the lives of Basque Americans who populated may areas of Wyoming, including Evanston, Kemmerer, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Star Valley, and Buffalo. Basque sheepherders, their sheep, their dogs, the camp wagons they used, the hardships and dangers they faced, and the beautiful country they ranged are all expertly recorded in the author's narrative. It is an example of Wyoming's hardy spirit at its best.
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