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    The Dry Divide
    The Dry Divide
    The Dry Divide
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Dry Divide

    Written by Ralph Moody

    Narrated by Cameron Beierle

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    About this audiobook

    Ralph Moody had just turned twenty, with only one dime in his pocket, when he was put off a freight train in Western Nebraska on the Fourth of July, 1919. Three months later Ralph would own eight teams of horses and the rigs to go with them. Everyone he worked with shared in the prosperity--the widow whose crop he saved, and the group of misfits who form a first-rate harvesting crew. The crew included a Mexican teenager unable to speak a word of English, a snake oil pitcher known as “Doc,” two silent giant Swedes, the easy going Irishman Jaikus, and ornery Old Bill. As Ralph leads his ragtag crew, fickle Mother Nature and frail human character make sure the going is anything but easy. The tension in these opposing forces never lets up as Ralph faces some of his greatest challenges high up on the Dry Divide...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateDec 15, 2001
    ISBN9781581164275
    The Dry Divide

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    • 4/5
      Loved this! My only complaint is that there were several dead spots in the recording
    • 2/5
      This one made me wonder some. Moody's so unwaveringly bright, so much more insightful than any other character in the book, so adept at every task he puts his hand to- he's a better loan officer than the banker, a better bookkeeper than the accountant, a better horseman than the rancher, a better milker than the dairymaid, and so on. It got somewhat monotonous, listening to this 20-year-old kid teach everyone else their business.

      I understand that he's using his life to illuminate the wonders and rewards of hard work and sheer grit. I get it. I just don't know that I believe it all, especially since a little research shows that he didn't write this series till he was well into his 50s. I suspect a little bit of euphoric recall crept in after he married a woman who wouldn't allow him to do any ranching at all.

      Still an interesting historical perspective, but not my favorite.