“Walter, you know what you’re buying, right?” Walter Hayes looked at the mountain of greasy starter motors stacked inside the dealership’s storage shed. “Yeah.” “Then you know these are junk,”...
“You came here for that broken Deere?” “It isn’t broken yet. I came to find out what’s wrong with it.” “Six mechanics couldn’t fix it.” “Maybe they missed something.” Wade...
Lana Nyquist was forty-two, a widow, and the owner of nearly half the farmland in her home county. Nobody at the 4-H auction knew it. She arrived at the fairgrounds...
Holden Whitmore stood inside the observation pen at Whitmore Champion Genetics in Amarillo, Texas, and watched 3,400 pounds of white bull charge a reinforced steel gate. Nabid struck it again....
“You’re digging a ditch in the middle of a drought,” Ray Dunning called, loudly enough for everyone along the fence line to hear. Seven farmers and one unhappy contractor stood...
Carl Brennan had farmed eight hundred acres in Finney County, Kansas, since 1993. At fifty-seven, he had spent three decades running John Deere equipment, starting with his first machine, purchased...
The first whip went into the ground on a gray Tuesday morning, and nobody thought much of it. By the end of that week, they did. Mara Kowalski was twenty-six,...
The map had been hidden in the lid of a trunk for more than a century. Norah Hartley found it on a bright Tuesday morning in the attic of her...
A boot struck the roof, eighteen inches above her head. It was the morning of January 14, 1888, in a snow-filled railroad cut in Dakota Territory. Rosa Beck froze with...
The bull looked as if it were wearing a second skin made of ticks. That was the image that stayed with everyone in the sale barn at the Beeville livestock...