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The dry divide

Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1994]
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity - the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Ralph Moody; Ralph Moody
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ralph Moody
ISBN: 0803282168 9780803282162
OCLC Number: 30110375
Notes: "A Bison book."
Description: 230 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: by Ralph Moody ; illustrated by Tran Mawicke.
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Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity - the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure that nothing was easy.

The tension between opposing forces never lets up in this book. Without preaching, The Dry Divide warmly illustrates the old-time virtues of hard work, ingenuity, and respect for others. The Ralph Moody who was a youngster in Little Britches and who grew up without a father and with early responsibilities in Man of the Family, The Fields of Home, The Home Ranch, Mary Emma & Company, and Shaking the Nickel Bush (all Bison Books) has become a man to reckon with in The Dry Divide.

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