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Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue
Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue
Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue
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Simplicity.

Lead me to it, you say from the midst of your overburdened, over-scheduled, list-making life.

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 twelve years, and let me tell you right ufront: 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 a Ralph Lauren catalog. (Those people never get muddy, and they wear bras in town.)

In 1990 we heard the wilderness call to us, and God help us, we answered. Shows how much we knew.

Question: do you harbor a romantic image of the bucolic lifestyle? Consider the following:
• Are you fit?
• Do you crave adventure?
• How straight can you shoot?

You DO know how to shoot a gun, don’t you? You may not have to deal with teenage gangs, but you might have to defend your territory against marauding cattle, dogs, mountain lions, and heavily armed marijuana farmers.

Still interested? By the way, what do you know about cows?

More than we did, I hope.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 5, 2016
ISBN9781370947324
Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue
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Mary Lynn Archibald

Mary Lynn Archibald Archibald is a freelance copywriter, editor and author of two memoirs: Briarhopper: A History, one woman's story from 1913 to 1945 and from Kentucky coal country to California; and Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue, the hilarious saga of two greenhorns who inadvertently find themselves in the cattle business. Her book was a USA BOOK NEWS Best Book Award 2008 Finalist for Humor, and INDIE BOOK AWARDS Finalist for Humor and Memoir. Mary Lynn's next memoir, due out in the fall, chronicles her life from her naîve, "Leave it to Beaver" childhood in small town Soquel, California, to a slightly more risqué life as a chorus girl and model at the dawn of the Summer of Love," which she apparently slept right through. She lives in Sonoma County, California, with her partner-in-crime, Carl, and their dog of questionable parentage, Fizzbo.

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