Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West

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Seven Summers is the story of a naturalist-turned-professor who flees city life each and every summer with her pets and power tools to pursue her lifelong dream—building a cabin in the Wyoming woods. With little money and even less experience, she learns that creating a sanctuary on her mountain meadow requires ample doses of faith, patience, and luck. This mighty task also involves a gradual and from time to time painful acquisition of flexibility and humility in the course of great determination and naive enthusiasm.

For Corbett, homesteading isn’t about wresting a living from the land, but respecting and immersing herself in it—observing owls and cranes, witnessing seasons and cycles, and learning the rhythms of wind and weather in her woods and meadow. The process changes her in unexpected ways, just as it did for women homesteaders more than a century ago. The more she works with wood, the more she understands the importance of “going with the grain” in wood in addition to in life. She should learn how to let go, to move through loss and grief, to consider her voice, and to balance independence and dependence. Corbett also gains a better understanding of her fellow Wyomingites, a mixture of ranchers, builders, gas workers, and developers, who share a love of place but continuously hold decidedly different values. This beautifully written memoir will appeal to readers who appreciate stories of the western landscape, independent women, or the appreciation of the natural world.


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