Title

Lazy B : growing up on a cattle ranch in the American southwest

Description

The first female justic e of the U.S. Supreme Court describes her childhood on a ranch on the Arizona-New Mexico border.

Identifier

993895

375507248

Creator

O'Connor, Sandra Day

Format

1st ed.

Contributor

Day, H Alan

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2002

Program air date: January 27, 2002

Publisher

Random House

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes from front endpapers and front flyleaf: "50 yrs. married to John; 20 yrs. on Court; 113 yrs. family stayed near Gila River. - Our father Harry - born 1898 at Lazy B.; 1927: Harry went to El Paso, met Ada Mae; eloped 3 months later, lived on Lazy B., had 3 children - Sandra, Ann, Alan. - Sandra and John: 3 sons: Scott, Brian, Jon. - Away in El Paso at school from six. - Ranch: 5 employees year round, twice as many for spring and fall roundups. - What's the lesson of Rastus? - Earliest memory at ranch: silence. - 35 wells and windmills. - Mexican border: after Mexican War, 1846-48, James Gadsden negotiated with Mex. for land for railroad - $15 mill. price, but we paid $10 mill. - New Mexico, a state Jan. 6, 1912; Arizona, a state Feb. 14, 1912. - Orville Rayburn - a neighbor, whose land abutted ours; he spit tobacco juice across room to fireplace; MO kicked him out. - Alan's horse Sabre killed by MO. - Horse named 'Idiot' - not politically correct. - Jim Brister: married Mae when she was 11; lived in little house on ranch for 47 yrs. - Bug Quinn: married twice - not happily - drank a lot, in jail from time to time; truck accident with train; ran for Justice of the Peace. - Rastus. - Claude Tippets. - Got my saddle at 7. - Eloped Sept. 16, 1927; b. March 24, 1930. - The tensions between Alan and DA. - DA: If you want something done, do it yourself. - God, p. 142. - First atomic bomb test at Alamogordo. - Flat tire story. - DA's children were inclined to take more risks than he. - Rastus: Dead calf and mother cow; DA killed the calf because he was attacked by coyote. - Claude Tippets - worked from 1918-1984 when he retired; never married, no children; false teeth in Army, after that threw them away. - DA: Lazy B.: largest in region. - H.S. Pasadena - read widely all his life. - Fed. Gov. program to pay for cattle to be killed. - You say he liked FDR; p. 26: opposed to federal programs. - REA in 40's helped Lazy B. get electricity; Radio, TV later. - DA always had to have last word - I and siblings picked up this trait, p. 29. - Trip down Mississippi; trip to Honduras and Cuba; Seattle to Alaska. - MO: born in Mexico; married a dentist for a couple of months; learned about [this] when I was 11. They eloped, married by Justice of Peace, lived on ranch for more than 50 years; she liked to read. - 5'4" - U.S. News, New Yorker, Time, LA Times; taught me to read at age 4; she felt closest to Alan; head of cattle story." - Notes from back endpapers: "First pet: Bob the Bobcat. - It was not until I grew up and moved away from the Lazy B. that I learned just how unusual my early life was. - Rastus called you Tammy - your baby sitter Rafael Estrada. - MO was the only woman among a crew of men. - MO married before. - During WWII: German prisoner near Duncan, Italian prisoner near Lordsburg. - Deference to DA permeated the atmosphere. - Bureau of Land Management. - [?] office went from 4 to 115 during Alan's time. - R. Lewis Bourman. - Stanford at 16 - 1946; law school in 4th year; met John O'C. working on law review; brought to ranch - DA served up Rocky Mountain oysters, p. 285; wedding at ranch - country music - Dec. 20, 1952. - DA dies at 86 - emphysema - on oxygen; last trip around the ranch with Alan to see the herd, p. 301. - Lazy B.: 1/5 size of R.I. - DA demanded total loyalty from his employees and his children. - Cattle drive to Mexico one year off because it was dry. - The tension between your father and Alan - your father was pessimistic about the ranch and life. - p. 142: Why don't we go to church on Sunday? - Do you believe in God? - Yes. - Nancy Drew mysteries; played lots of cards; talked politics at the dinner table. - No praise for changing tire - I was late. - Arizona State Senator, 1969-1975; Arizona Court of Appeals, 1979-1981. - U.S. Supreme Court, Sept. 25, 1981."

Subject

"O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-"

"United States. Supreme Court--Biography."

"United States. Supreme Court--Biography."

"Judges--United States--Biography."

"Ranch life--Arizona."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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