The Dry Divide (Paperback)

This addition to a long record of indomitable youth brings the author, at 20 and learning to live with incipient diabetes, to the wheat fields in Kansas where work for sharecropper Hudson turns out to be a nightmare. Determined to win a showdown with his boss, he makes arrangements with the newly corralled crew and the local banker to bring in a profitable harvest but the death of Hudson makes a change in his plans. Another deal with the bank, energetic cooperation from the widow's sister, the mixed crew of medicine man Doc, Mexican Paco, Irish Jaikins, the Swedes Gus and Lars, and the work never lets up to stack up the most and the best wheat available. Success assured he turns to the transport business to haul the grain to the elevators and works out a strategy of loading, timing and traveling that pays off for all of them, and then he is in the cattle business. Plenty of get up and go in a youth who was "greener than a frog" at the beginning of this 19?? summer, capable of handling people and horses, this sturdily continues the autobiography begun by Little ??Britches (1950) through the recent Shaking the ?? Bush ??(1962). (Kirkus Reviews)

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. Purchase the audio edition.

General

Imprint:	Bison Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1994
First published:	August 1994
Authors:	Ralph Moody
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-8216-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8032-8216-8
Barcode:	9780803282162

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