Dry Divide, Ralph Moody
Dry Divide, Ralph Moody
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Dry Divide

Author: Ralph Moody

Narrator: Cameron Beierle

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2001


Synopsis

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 w

About Ralph Moody

Ralph Owen Moody (1898–1982)
was an American author who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies largely about
the American West, though a few are set in New England. He was born in East
Rochester, New Hampshire in 1898 but moved to Colorado with his family when he
was eight in the hopes that a dry climate would improve his father Charles's
tuberculosis. Moody detailed his experiences in Colorado in the first book of
the Little Britches series, Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers. After
his father died, eleven-year-old Moody assumed the duties of the “man of
the house”. He and his sister Grace combined ingenuity with hard work in a
variety of odd jobs to help their mother provide for their large family. The
Moody clan returned to the East Coast sometime after Charles's death. After a period as livestock business owner in rural Kansas, Moody married and moved to Kansas City. Ralph and Edna Moody had three children.


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Goodreads review by Cindy

Some great illustrations of the power of stewardship.......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Second Reading: January 2017 First Reading Oct 2014: Much better than Nickel Bush. Solid. Interesting. Moral. Not as compelling as the first five books but still a very good example of entrepreneurial leadership.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

All of Ralph's books are intoxicating, especially since one knows the events they are reading about are not fictitious. But this one holds a special place in my life. I was 20 years old, the same age as Ralph, when I read this book. The natural leadership that he asserted was respectful, the ingenuit......more