Sky Ranch: Living on a Remote Ranch in Idaho

Author: Bobbi Phelps

**First Place Winner in the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards for Memoir/Biography**

A city girl is uprooted and moved to the farm, where she must overcome her fears and learn to live life in a rougher way.

Once Bobbi Phelps married an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. The contrast between her suburban background and her farming life created challenging yet rewarding differences.

Sky Ranch tells of Bobbi Phelps’s Idaho ranch experiences between 1980 and 1996, the adventures in a past time before camera phones, GPS technology, and social media. Throughout this memoir, she shares frightening tales of:
-    Dangerous white-outs during Rocky Mountain blizzards.
-    A terrifying flooded road crossing in pitch blackness.
-    A near drowning while fishing Henry’s Lake.
-    Losing her young son among huge harvesting machines.
Sky Ranch is a memoir about a naïve suburban woman who struggled to navigate an industrial farm and its commercial cattle enterprise. Her life on the ranch meant grocery shopping once every two weeks, driving through harsh winter storms and swollen streams, and rescuing her horse in a full-blown blizzard. Living in the Rocky Mountains allowed her to fish, hunt, and camp on a regular basis. She also discovered different aspects of the Mormon religion, coyotes hunting her dog, industrial farming, and environmental conservation.  

Hardcover: 240 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches