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|  | | Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue
Labeled a memoir, "Accidental Cowgirl" is really a love story—or several love stories. Love stories precipitated by newspaper ads—one presenting a "COMPLEX, SWM, 47, passes for 39, going on 18..." The other listing "TWIN CREEKS RANCH—Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful properties in California.”
It is the humorous, honest, always insightful, and frequently lyrical recreation of the twelve years two city folk spent trying to run a rustic cattle ranch on the fringe of the Six Rivers National Forest.
—Gil Mansergh, Film Critic, Book Doctor, Author
Simplicity. Lead me to it, you say from the midst of your overburdened,overscheduled, list-making life. If this is your desire, you are not alone. Not so fast. Before you sink your savings into that country squire lifestyle and all that goes with it, perhaps you should take a cold shower and read this book. We lived that life for 12 years, and let me tell you right up front: the simple life isn't really that simple, and despite my persistent romantic fantasies, I rarely managed to look like I’d just emerged from the pages of an L.L. Bean catalog. (Those people never get muddy, and the | |  | | Briarhopper: A History
Briarhopper: A History is the true story of a shy, beautiful girl's journey from the hollers of Kentucky across the country during the depths of the Great Depression, and her awkward, triumphant assimilation into California life, complete with indoor plumbing.
Chapter Seven
Tales Out of School
When it was time for me to enter first grade in Esserville that fall, (a three-room affair with separate outhouses for boys and girls at the rear), money was scarce.
Mom made me a new dress, but Dad had to scrape to find enough money to buy books, which at that time were not provided by the schools.
Mom took me to Norton to buy a shiny new blue reader and a spelling book. Together they cost the vast sum of two dollars.
Something else the schools did not provide was janitorial service. The tallest boys washed the blackboa |
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