Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest-Fast Shipping

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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.

“A charming memoir about growing up as sturdy cowboys and cowgirls in a time now past.”—USA Today

In this illuminatingand unusual book, Sandra Day O’Connor tells, with her brother, Alan, the story ofthe Day family, and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B ranchin 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 theworld, self-reliance, and survival, and how the land, people, and values of the LazyB shaped them.

This fascinating glimpse of life in the Southwest in the last centuryrecounts an important time in American history, and provides an enduring portraitof an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominentfigures in America.