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　　In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating fromcollege, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild andunexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin.Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, ayoung woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the strangest memberof this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics. So begins herunabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materialswith which to create a home and family of her own. Yet only throughtime and distance does she acquire the wisdom that allows her tosee the love she lived through and sometimes left behind.
　　By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wifeand mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earthin which to put down roots. Brimming with careful insight andwritten in a spare, radiant prose, her story is a heart-wrenchingode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and thepeculiar sweetness of hard labor, to finding oneself even inisolation, to a life formed by nature, and to the redemption oflove, whether given or received.

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 to create a home and family of her own. Yet only through
time and distance does she acquire the wisdom that allows her to
see the love she lived through and sometimes left behind. 
　　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. Brimming with careful insight and
written in a spare, radiant prose, her story is a heart-wrenching
ode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and the
peculiar sweetness of hard labor, to finding oneself even in
isolation, to a life formed by nature, and to the redemption of
love, whether given or received. 
　　Quietly profound and moving, astonishing in its honesty, in its
deep familiarity with country rarely seen so clearly, and in
beauties all its own, Claiming Ground is a truly singular
memoir. 
　　From the Hardcover edition.

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