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Sky Ranch: Living on a Remote Ranch in Idaho

Author	Bobbi Phelps Chapman

Sky Ranch: Living on a Remote Ranch in Idaho

Bobbi Phelps Chapman

SKY RANCH is a memoir about a naive suburban woman who struggles to navigate an industrial farm and its commercial cattle enterprise. She survives dangerous white-outs during Rocky Mountain blizzards as well as terrifying flash floods in early spring. She learns to duck hunt, fly fish, and row a drift boat. SKY RANCH appeals to readers interested in Western culture, cattle and row-crop farming, hunting and fishing, and those who only dream of living on a ranch. It takes the reader on an exciting ride of terror, drama, and humor, giving us a look at what goes on behind the scenes at a rural ranch, many miles from civilization.

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Categories: Book, Century fox, Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences Tags: Animal Husbandry (Kindle Store), Rural Sociology, Sociology of Rural Areas

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An award-winning memoir of marrying an Idaho rancher and confronting the challenges of rural life, filled with “colorful detail and drama” (Cheryl Peyton, author of the Alex Trotter mysteries).

First Place Winner, 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards for Memoir/Biography

After Bobbi Phelps married an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. Sky Ranch tells of her experiences between 1980 and 1996, in a time before camera phones, GPS technology, and social media. 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; and losing her young son among huge harvesting machines.

As 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. But she gradually adjusted to this radically different new life, and living in the Rocky Mountains allowed her to fish, hunt, and camp on a regular basis. She learned about different aspects of the Mormon religion, the terror of coyotes hunting her dog, and environmental conservation. This gripping and often humorous memoir takes us behind the scenes at a rural ranch, many miles from civilization.

Bobbi Phelps Chapman

Bobbi Phelps Chapman grew up in Connecticut, forty miles from New York City. She became a flight attendant after working as a legal secretary in San Francisco.

In 1967 Bobbi travelled solo around the world for four months and returned to complete her education at the University of California, Berkeley. She then rejoined the airline industry. After six years as a flight attendant taking troops in an out of Vietnam and vacationers to Europe and the Orient, she and her husband travelled from New Zealand, to the British Isles, and finally to Africa where she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.

With a degree in art history, Bobbi worked as a photographer and copywriter. From knowledge gained by her employment at Sierra Designs, she started the Angler’s Calendar and Catalog Company in 1975. The calendars sold to thirty foreign countries and her business won Exporter of the Year for the State of Idaho (1993 small company category).

Bobbi was a twenty-year member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, an Arnold Gingrich writing award recipient with Fly Fishers International, and a nine-year Idaho board member to The Nature Conservancy. She continues to write periodic travel series in The Connection, a Lenoir City newspaper in Tennessee.

Bobbi was past President for the Authors Guild of Tennessee. As the author of six books, she gives numerous book presentations throughout the United States.