Winner of the Academy of Western Artists 2010 Buck Ramsey Book Award! In her coming of age book A Cowgirl Remembers When. Dawn shares her true life adventures of growing up on a ranch in Washington State. Hunting cougars with her trusty rifle, searching out hiding cattle in the rough cattle country, training horses and exploring the mountains surrounding her family ranch. She survives to adulthood even after encounters with wildlife, mini-wars with her brother and his friends and her teenage years when her friends she team up for holiday pranks. She survives confrontations with bulls, hunters, untrainable horses, her brother and cancer. Take time to read about growing up a cowgirl . Enjoy, reach back and remember when.