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Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her brother Alan spent their youth, a time they recall in this affectionate joint memoir. Deep in the granite hills of eastern Arizona in 1880, H.C. "We belonged to the Lazy B, and it belonged to each of us," write O'Connor and Day. Court watchers and fans of Western writing alike wi

• Title : Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
• Author : Sandra Day O'Connor
• Rating : 4.87 (669 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-2-30
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 317 Pages
• Asin : 0812966732
• Language : English

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her brother Alan spent their youth, a time they recall in this affectionate joint memoir. Deep in the granite hills of eastern Arizona in 1880, H.C. "We belonged to the Lazy B, and it belonged to each of us," write O'Connor and Day. Court watchers and fans of Western writing alike will take pleasure in this multigenerational account of life on the range. "We thought it would always be there." Weathering events from the Great Depression to cyclical drought, they worked the ranch's 300 square miles alongside a colorful crew of cowboys, learning the ways of cattle, horses, and people, lessons they share in well-turned anecdotes. They also learned a system of values that "was simple and unsophisticated and the product of necessity," one that has followed them into the larger world. Day founded the Lazy B ranch, where U.S. --Gregory McNamee

Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America. 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.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. 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. This fascinating glimpse of life in the Southwest in the last century recounts an important time in American history, and provides an enduring portrait of an indepe

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