What did Sandra Day O'Connor do for fun as a child?

Answer 1

Sandra Day (O'Connor) was born March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, but grew up on her parents' cattle ranch, the Lazy-B, in southeast Arizona.

Day's childhood was reminiscent of life in the Wild West. The ranch had neither running water nor electricity until 1937, and her nearest neighbors lived 25 miles away. Sandra learned to drive a farm truck at the age of seven, and could shoot a rifle by age eight. She befriended the ranch hands, rode horses like a cowboy, and even had a pet bobcat.

Because the ranch was so isolated, Day was sent to live with her grandmother and attended the exclusive Radford School until her mid-teens. Due to homesickness, she moved back to the ranch in 1945, and graduated high school the following year, at age 16.

O'Connor and her brother, H. Alan Day, have co-written a book about their childhood on the ranch called Lazy B, published in 2005. The book received respectable reviews.

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