She Found an Abandoned Stone Cabin With a Broken Roof —She Added a Thatched Roof and Forgot the Cold

In 1885, a Chinese refugee found a roofless stone cabin in a Wyoming mountain draw with winter closing in. No milled lumber. No nails. No crew. What she had was marsh grass, river bamboo, and the roof craft her grandmother taught her in a village she couldn't go back to. Then she pulled a cowboy out of the snow with a bullet in his leg, and the roof was no longer the only thing she had to keep alive. This is the story of how a woman with old hands turned a broken roof and a cowboy