In , 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. · In _Claiming Ground_, Laura Bell captures pitch-perfectly the essence of Wyoming land and life. Both spare and lyrical, her style paints painfully accurate images of a life spent on the high plains. I found myself reading passages aloud to my Wyoming-born partner, who agreed that Bell conveys the reality of Wyoming without romanticizing it/5. · “Intriguing and eloquent, by turns guarded then vulnerable, and always written with honesty and keen observation, Laura Bell's Claiming Ground merges exquisitely the human condition of wonder, celebration, fear and longing with the western landscape that so arouses and nurtures these same senses.” —Rick Bass “Deeply feltBrand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
DH: I've just let Laura Bell's memoir of her nearly 30 years in the West reluctantly out of my hands. Claiming Ground has been published by Knopf, edited by Gary Fisketjon, whose master's touch is glowing in quiet understatement on every page. What I can imagine about the West from my pocket suburb on the East Coast had been nurtured by three writers: Jim Lynch, Ron Carlson and Jonathan. Laura Bell. Claiming Ground. Laura Bell. Publisher: Knopf. Price ISBN Sign Up. Sign up to receive reading recommendations in your favorite genres! Sign Up. Trending Features. Where do books come from, anyway? Children's YA Picture Book. more info. 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. In , 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.
Claiming Ground: A Memoir. Laura Bell, Author. Knopf $ (p) ISBN For year-old Bell, the summer of fulfilled a childhood dream, a time that she narrates in this. Claiming Ground Laura Bell Review by Linda Stankard. April It’s the ’70s. Laura Bell graduates from college a pretty and promising young woman, but success. “Intriguing and eloquent, by turns guarded then vulnerable, and always written with honesty and keen observation, Laura Bell's Claiming Ground merges exquisitely the human condition of wonder, celebration, fear and longing with the western landscape that so arouses and nurtures these same senses.” —Rick Bass “Deeply felt.
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