01598cam a2200337 4500 121324552 TxAuBib 20100329120000.0 090717s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009029644 9780307272881 0307272885 DLC DLC YDX YDXCP ZPK TxAuBib Bell, Laura, 1954- Claiming ground [HC] / Laura Bell. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 241 p. ; 22 cm. 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. 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. 20100329. Bell, Laura 1954- Ranch life Wyoming. Sheepherding Wyoming. Ranching Wyoming. Ranches Wyoming. Young women Wyoming Biography. Wyoming Social life and customs. Wyoming History, Local. Wyoming Biography.