Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest [Paperback]

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 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.

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 independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America.“A loving but clear-eyed portrait of a distinctive and vanished American way of life.”—The New York Times Book Review

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

“This is a book for every reader, whether interested in conservation, history, family dynamics, education, or just plain adventure.”—Jill Ker Conway

“[O’Connor’s] beautifully told story of the Lazy B will eventually settle on the reader and, like a magic dust of smiles and pleasures, stay there forever.”—Jim LehrerSandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, and attended college and law school at Stanford University. She has been married toló&