Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska.
The tension between opposi.
But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure that nothing was easy.
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.
Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them.
It was the Fourth of July in 1919.
Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska