{"product_id":"when-i-came-west-laurie-wagner-buyer-9780806140599","title":"When I Came West","description":"As a young college student in the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner had never camped out, never gone hiking, and never lived without electricity or indoor plumbing. Yet she walked away from these comforts and headed for the wildest reaches of Montana to live with a man she had not met in person.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen I Came West\u003c\/i\u003e is Laurie Wagner Buyer's account of her terrifying and exhilarating years in Montana as she changes from a girl too squeamish to touch a dead mouse to a toughened frontierswoman unafraid to butcher a domestic animal. Living in a cabin far away from family and friends, with the nearest neighbor four miles away, Laurie finds herself caught up in two love affairs: one with the volatile Vietnam vet Bill and one with the untamed West--even as she recognizes, in the words of one neighbor, \"It is plumb foolishness to love something that cannot love you back.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile her relationship with Bill grows precarious, Laurie forges a lasting relationship with her surroundings: the rivers, the wildlife, and the people who inhabit such remote corners. Peeling away the romance of escaping to the wilderness, \u003ci\u003eWhen I Came West\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the brutality and bounty of a world far removed from modern urban life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie Wagner Buyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806140593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806140599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Honorable Mention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2010 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 279","brand":"Laurie Wagner Buyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992460951807,"sku":"9780806140599","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a71a8935-8623-4fed-803e-cdb0767b6fcc.jpg?v=1683319072","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-i-came-west-laurie-wagner-buyer-9780806140599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}