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Diamonds on the Alfalfa: A Novel Inspired by True Events
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ISBN13: 9798161260043
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 15 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 15 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Summer, 1973. Sixteen years old.
His turn. Each of his four older brothers spent the summer he turned sixteen working on a cattle ranch at the foot of the Ruby Mountains in Nevada, and this year it's his turn. His father grew up on a farm in Idaho and wanted every one of his sons to know both the joy and the challenge of living off the land. Now the boy has to learn it all at once: moving irrigation pipe at dawn and dusk, stacking hay in the heat, and working for a boss who says almost nothing and says good job even less. Over one summer he faces a rattlesnake, a stuck cow, a charging cow, and a runaway truck, and begins to understand what his father and
His turn. Each of his four older brothers spent the summer he turned sixteen working on a cattle ranch at the foot of the Ruby Mountains in Nevada, and this year it's his turn. His father grew up on a farm in Idaho and wanted every one of his sons to know both the joy and the challenge of living off the land. Now the boy has to learn it all at once: moving irrigation pipe at dawn and dusk, stacking hay in the heat, and working for a boss who says almost nothing and says good job even less. Over one summer he faces a rattlesnake, a stuck cow, a charging cow, and a runaway truck, and begins to understand what his father and
brothers were trying to hand down. On this ranch, water is everything. It grows the hay, and the hay is the ranch's livelihood. On a cold June morning, ice settles over the alfalfa and glitters like diamonds. Warm, funny, and full of small moments,
Diamonds on the Alfalfa is a novel inspired by true events.
Diamonds on the Alfalfa is a novel inspired by true events.
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