Lazy B (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: H. Alan Day, Sandra Day
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1880-1996
- Setting: The American Southwest, especially western New Mexico and southeastern Arizona
- Principal Characters: Sandra Day O’Connor, H. Alan Day, Ann Day, Harry Day, Ada Mae Day, Rafael Estrada, Jim Brister, Claude Tippets, Ralph Quinn
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Cattle, Rural or country life, West, U.S., Judges, Arizona, New Mexico, Southwest, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Cowboys or cowgirls, Deserts, Land settlement, Weather, Livestock
- Locales: Arizona, New Mexico, Southwest (U.S.)
Lazy B began operations in 1880 when the authors’ grandfather, H. C. Day, a transplanted New Englander newly arrived from Wichita, Kansas, decided to claim as much as he could of the public land made available following the Gadsden Purchase. The land he was allocated, most of it open range, consisted of 160,000 acres stretching from western New Mexico well into southeastern Arizona. The total holding, about one- fifth the size of Rhode Island, made it the largest ranch in the Southwest. The Lazy B Corporation that H. C. formed owned 8,560 acres. Thirty thousand acres were leased from...
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