Lazy B | Lazy B

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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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