There were times when we had to work through the night to try to get the well or pump repaired, to supply the livestock with water.I recall some grim, difficult times when DA and the cowboys would have to stop all other work to repair a well that had ceased producing water for the cattle. Just before dawn the doves begin to call, with a soft cooing sound, starting the day with their endless search for food. I will have to start by saying Sandra Day O'Connor is a hero of mine, so this review might be slightly biased as I went into this book expecting to like it - and was not disappointed. The Day family did it for years; but it was never easy. It is hard to imagine this land covered with water. Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day family, and everyday life on the Lazy B, are the lessons Sandra and Alan learned about the world, self-reliance, and survival, and how the land, people, and values of the Lazy B shaped them. The characters and creatures that inhabit the book are beautifully drawn to the point where I felt almost that I knew them personally. opened, releasing legions of unnatural creatures that have pushed humanity to the edge of extinction. Random House, 2002. Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest - Kindle edition by O'Connor, Sandra Day, Day, H. Alan. Essential reading to understand the kind of people who make ranching work in a hard scrabble world. Refresh and try again. When you get off your horse, it pays to look first to avoid stepping in an ant den, on a scorpion, or in the path of a snake. Codice articolo A23-457f, Descrizione libro Random House, New York, U.S.A., 2002. gaining and losing the same thirty-five pounds since junior high–and that if you added all of that discarded weight together, he had lost an entire ... September 1939. Also? Something went wrong. The cave's inner walls have been smoothed with mud plaster, and here and there is a handprint, hardened when the mud dried, centuries ago.Every living thing in the desert has some kind of protective mechanism or characteristic to survive-thorns, teeth, horns, poison, or perhaps just being too tough to kill and eat. This memoir is written as if its dictated and you can actually tell that in the writing style, which is kind of a weird thing because it's a book. During the drilling, the driller came to DA twice to ask for more money per foot for boring through such hard rock. New. "-Jim Lehrer. The material is great, and I have learned a lot about ranching, at least how it was up to the 1950’s. We hear about the eccentric and accomplished cowboys, the real West, as well as all the animals from horses to bobcats. It takes planning, patience, skill, and endurance. At the place Ann selected, they ended up drilling through hard rock. Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo. This is not a book I would ever have chosen for myself. High up on one of the canyon walls is a small opening to a cave. Opens image gallery. Maybe it does but this was written by the former justice and her brother about growing up on a ranch on the Arizona-New Mexico border. At eight hundred feet, Lost Lake is the deepest well on the ranch, located adjacent to a dry lake formed by drainage coming out of the mountains that surround it on all four sides. This collectible, " NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. No point, other then they fell off, either bruised or not. She turned out very well as did her siblings. As a result, I think I like the book more than I would otherwise because it's like I could hear her reading it. I'm not a nonfiction person and expected this to be a slog, but the writing was easy and fluid. LAZY B, by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day. Things like hiring a permanent employee at age 6-7 who ran away from an. I expected a narrative-style memoir similar to Justice Sotomayor's book; instead, each "chapter" highlighted a particular person from (or aspect of) Sandra Day O'Connor's childhood growing up on a ranch out west. Book is in NEW condition. "It isn't necessary to have ever set foot on a ranch to savor O'Connor and Day's beautifully conveyed reminiscence about growing up on the same piece of land where their parents and grandparents had lived and worked. GIFT QUALITY. I like memoirs and find it interesting to see what memories people select to describe themselves. Codice articolo DADAX0375507248, Descrizione libro Random House, 2002. Life depended on it.There were thirty-five wells and windmills on the Lazy B, and it was a big job to keep them pumping. Hardcover. Work would begin at daylight and continue into the night. The windmills and pumps had to be oiled and serviced regularly. As the water receded over the succeeding weeks, it would leave wide areas of a coating of slippery mud. Codice articolo M0375507248, Informazioni sul venditore By Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. During periods of drought and dry weather-periods that seemed to predominate-the ranch crew spent most of their time keeping the wells working and hauling supplemental feed to the cattle. Sandra received much of her formal education through riding the train to El Paso to stay with her maternal grandparents while attending a local girls' school. It was also entirely without any depth of observation. Spese di spedizione: A few ancient steps are cut out of the bluff leading to it. A loving but clear-eyed portrait of a distinctive and vanished American way of life.”—The New York Times Book Review “A charming memoir about growing up as sturdy cowboys and cowgirls in a time now past.”—USA Today “This is a book for every reader, whether interested in conservation, history, family dynamics, education, or just plain adventure.”—Jill Ker Conway “[O’Connor’s] beautifully told story of the Lazy B will eventually settle on the reader and, like a magic dust of smiles and pleasures, stay there forever.”—Jim Lehrer, ©1997-2020 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. If you like the idea of stepping into that history, you will probably like this book. Rilegato, Descrizione libro Random House, 2002. So ten pages in, I wa. A book club I'm interested in trying out is reading it, so I figured I might as well give it a shot. that serve as turning points in the survival of the ranch, and the etching of her and her younger brothers’ character. Satisfaction Guaranteed! LAZY B, by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day. By simply highlighting small events each in their own chapter, the author demonstrates what seems to have been an isolated and monotonous life that lent itself easily to taking full stock of people and small victories. Sandra's grandfather first put some cattle on open grazing land in 1886, and the Lazy B developed and continued to prosper as Sandra's parents, who eloped and then lived on the Lazy B all their lives, carved out a frugal and happy life for themselves and their three children on the rugged frontier. It starts the windmills moving, turning, creaking.At night the sounds are magnified. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. When the branch pulls down, it indicates that water is below the surface. Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017. She wasn’t around or aware when these men, like everyone, were learning their trade. 1st Edition. Al momento non sono disponibili copie per questo codice ISBN. But although the authors speak admiringly of the cowboys' competence and good humor there's plenty of just plain dysfunction: alcoholism, wife beating, gambling, bad temper, immaturity, impulsiveness, foolish pride. In the 1920s a master craftsman constructed these towers on the site, with beautiful, long, straight timbers all cut by hand and mitered to fit, and they have weathered over the years to a soft gray color. She was Arizona state senator from 1969-1975, and she served on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1979-1981. We built catchment basins and dirt tanks to catch and store it. Sandra Day Oconnor's book is not particularly well written and rather superficial, leading to more questions about her life than she answers. They describe the hard life and some of the people and events at the Lazy B in the years that their parents lived there with their three children. The later describe in detail singular cattle drives, a story of the day the truck almost got washed away in a flash flood, etc. An occasional moo to a calf or to another cow can be heard, or the urgent bawl of a calf that has lost contact with its mother, or the low insistent grunt, almost a growl, of a bull as it walks steadily along to the watering trough or back out to the pasture. Not enough to be annoying, but they should have gotten some editing help. Be the first to ask a question about Lazy B. As children, we found many buff-colored pottery shards, an occasional metate, or grindstone, sometimes a projectile point or pieces of obsidian that had been flaked off in the process of making the projectiles. We pumped it from underground. The entire book is made up of remembrances. Her parents, Harry and Ida Mae Day, owned a cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona called the Lazy B. In this illuminating and unusual book, Sandra Day O’Connor tells, with her brother, Alan, the story of the Day family, and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B ranch in Arizona. Condizione: New. Condizione: New. I bought this on a whim before a trip to Arizona, since there was very little on Arizona in the bookshop I was browsing. Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O'Connor's family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today--the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America. Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, and attended college and law school at Stanford University. It is hard to imagine this land covered with water. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Please try again. The dry pods from the blossoms are good additions in dried-flower arrangements. Some a paragraph long, some memories a page. Sandra O'Connor was able to achieve that for him, where she excelled academically, was then inspired by one of her instructors to study law (also at Stanford), met her husband (and also dated classmate William Rehnquist), and then struggled to begin a law career at a time that women had almost no such opportunity. You want the language to be more readable then this book delivers. This book read almost like historical fiction more than a memoir. Cottonwood Spring is a flowing spring surrounded by large cottonwood trees located in the northeast part of the ranch, near the Gila River. This is Sandra Day O'Connor and her brother Alan Day's memoir of their childhood on a cattle ranch in the arid, open high desert country south of the Gila River on the border of Arizona and New Mexico. High Lonesome is the most descriptive name on the ranch. DA had brought a green willow limb with them, and he got Ann to "witch" the well with the willow limb. So I could relate to some of those stories. Cerca tra tutti i libri di questo autore e questo titolo. Satisfaction Guaranteed! There are soapweeds-tall, hairy-looking yuccas, some with two or three trunks. Water was scarce and hard to find. I would spend the hours waiting for DA to finish some work in that area looking around for some of these bits of Indian life and times.

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