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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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Determined women volume 2
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Story of the author's mother, including how she built a cabin high in Wyoming's Absaroka Mountains.
8) Nana's story
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"The year 2020 is one we will always remember but wish we could forget. For me it was escpecially bad as it started off with Cliff's declining health, and his ultimate death in early February. The coronavirus pandemic had already started, but it hadn't reached the point of quarantine yet. For this we were thankful that we were able to have a funeral and family gathering for our beloved "Papa." When we were able to visit with friends again, I was recounting...
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A collection of 13 biographical sketches highlights 19 women and girls of Wyoming. Nominated by people in Wyoming for their inspirational stories, the women's accounts of their lives were filmed to make Wyoming women and girls visible -- "so that other women and girls will be inspired, and so that women's and girls' important roles in the life of the state will be valued as they deserve"--Website.