She seriously considered a 44-acre plot in Winthrop, Washington, before finally settling on a rugged 120-acre Colorado ranch near the headwaters of the Rio Grande, which she bought for 5 percent down plus a signed copy of her book. She drove north from San Francisco, all the way to Bellingham, before heading east across Washington, Idaho and Montana. When Pam Houston was 31, fresh off the success of her first book, “Cowboys are my Weakness,” she drove across the American West, giving readings, living out of her car “and looking for a place to call home.”
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