{"product_id":"claiming-ground-a-memoir-9780307474643","title":"Claiming Ground: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1977, Laura Bell left her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. The only woman in a man's world, she nevertheless found a home among the strange community of drunks and eccentrics, as well as a shared passion for a life of solitude and hard work. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in a memoir that's as breathtaking as it is singular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Bell's work has been published in several collections, and from the Wyoming Arts Council she has received two literature fellowships as well as the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Award and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. She lives in Cody, Wyoming, and since 2000 has worked there for the Nature Conservancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50720704594194,"sku":"9780307474643","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_94b130a4-6825-450d-b24b-1e27152c3ae9.jpg?v=1734674891","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/claiming-ground-a-memoir-9780307474643","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}