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An award-winning memoir of marrying an Idaho rancher and confronting the challenges of rural life, filled with “colorful detail and drama” (Cheryl Peyton, author of the Alex Trotter mysteries).
First Place Winner, 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards for Memoir/Biography
After Bobbi Phelps married an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. Sky Ranch tells of her experiences between 1980 and 1996, in a time before camera phones, GPS technology, and social media. She shares frightening tales of dangerous white-outs during Rocky Mountain blizzards; a terrifying flooded road crossing in pitch blackness; a near drowning while fishing Henry’s Lake; and losing her young son among huge harvesting machines.
As a naïve suburban woman who struggled to navigate an industrial farm and its commercial cattle enterprise, her life on the ranch meant grocery shopping once every two weeks, driving through harsh winter storms and swollen streams, and rescuing her horse in a full-blown blizzard. But she gradually adjusted to this radically different new life, and living in the Rocky Mountains allowed her to fish, hunt, and camp on a regular basis. She learned about different aspects of the Mormon religion, the terror of coyotes hunting her dog, and environmental conservation. This gripping and often humorous memoir takes us behind the scenes at a rural ranch, many miles from civilization.
First Place Winner, 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards for Memoir/Biography
After Bobbi Phelps married an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. Sky Ranch tells of her experiences between 1980 and 1996, in a time before camera phones, GPS technology, and social media. She shares frightening tales of dangerous white-outs during Rocky Mountain blizzards; a terrifying flooded road crossing in pitch blackness; a near drowning while fishing Henry’s Lake; and losing her young son among huge harvesting machines.
As a naïve suburban woman who struggled to navigate an industrial farm and its commercial cattle enterprise, her life on the ranch meant grocery shopping once every two weeks, driving through harsh winter storms and swollen streams, and rescuing her horse in a full-blown blizzard. But she gradually adjusted to this radically different new life, and living in the Rocky Mountains allowed her to fish, hunt, and camp on a regular basis. She learned about different aspects of the Mormon religion, the terror of coyotes hunting her dog, and environmental conservation. This gripping and often humorous memoir takes us behind the scenes at a rural ranch, many miles from civilization.
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