A historical memoir that spans the twentieth century and recapitulates the life of a daughter of Italian immigrants who came to Wyoming to make a new life. From her cabin in the Hoback Basin, Florence Rose Krall Shepard retraces the contours of her long life through the lens of the seasons that call up memories. From the landscape of childhood on a sheep ranch during the Great Depression, through schooling in a one-room school to universities, marriages and motherhood, teaching and environmental activism, she pays tribute to her nurturing Italian parents and the wonders of the natural world. Challenges faced on her journey became divides from which she gained a new perspective..
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