Lazy B, Sandra Day OConnor
Lazy B, Sandra Day OConnor
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Lazy B
Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest

Author: Sandra Day O'Connor, H. Alan Day

Narrator: Sandra Day O'Connor

Abridged: 5 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2002


Synopsis

What was it in Sandra Day O'Connor's background and early life 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? In this beautiful, illuminating, and unusual book, Sandra Day O'Connor, with her brother, Alan, tells 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, about people, self-reliance, and survival, and the reader will learn how the values of the Lazy B shaped them and their lives.

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. As you read about the daily adventures, the cattle drives and roundups, the cowboys and horses, the continual praying for rain and fixing of windmills, the values instilled by a self-reliant way of life, you see how Sandra Day O'Connor grew up.

This fascinating glimpse of life in the American Southwest in the last century recounts an interesting time in our history, and gives us an enduring portrait of an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America today.

About The Author

Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, and attended college and law school at Stanford University. She has been married to John O'Connor since 1952, and they have three sons. Nominated by President Reagan as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, she took the oath of office on September 25, 1981, the first woman to do so.H. Alan Day is a lifelong rancher who, after graduation from the University of Arizona, managed the Day ranch, the Lazy B, for thirty years. He also purchased and ran ranches in Nebraska and South Dakota, where he established a wild-horse sanctuary that, under contract with the U.S. government, cared for fifteen hundred wild horses. He lives in Tucson.


Reviews

am convinced that Sandra Day O'Connor did not write this book herself as its observations are devoid of any depth and is written on a grade-school level. While the book offers a much appreciated glimpse into the Arizona of days gone by, it reads as a series of disconnected events without any person......more

Goodreads review by Jan C

i was surprised by this book. I guess I thought that because she is a conservative that it would show in this book. 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. It was a hard life but one where she and her brot......more

This memoir about growing up on a large ranch in the dry, dry country of Arizona and New Mexico. This is primarily about ranch life, the cowboys and ranch hands, their backgrounds, talking care of the animals and the land, the struggle of O'Connor's parents thru their lives to survive and become fin......more

Goodreads review by Mark

This memoir by the first woman justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor and her brother H. Alan Day took this east coast native to a foreign terrain along the expansive Arizona/New Mexico boarder. Maybe it was my past appreciation of Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour western novels combined w......more