Opa Reads

Ralph and Judy end their wheat hauling business and begin a cattle trading business. Only Paco will remain with Ralph through the winter, so all the hands leave for Denver.

Just and the crew figure out how to surprise Ralph with a renovated house and bunk room. Mrs Hudson has enough profit from the wheat harvest to move to town and into a house of her own.

The wheat hauling business gets into action as two different properties get managed by Ralph and Judy. The celebration on the first day could be heard a mile away.

Ornery mustangs are brought in from the field, hitched to the wagons, and then each driver gets to practice running down the gulch and up the opposite hill.

Doc is cured of his medicine man ways, the wagons are repaired and made ready for business, and paint is added by Martha and Judy.

Ralph and his team figure out how to build a forge, repair the wagons, drive the hills with light horse teams, and then Judy helped Ralph determine which hauling orders could be accepted.

Ralph and Judy work together to haggle for horses, harness, and wagons to ensure a successful hauling operation.

Ralph does the arithmetic required for a profit analysis of hauling wheat in order to convince the banker to back his venture. The crew enjoys a day in town, but Doc reverts to old habits.

Bones makes a visit to Ralph’s fields in order to assess the quality and value of the crops. Ralph develops his first ideas of hauling crops to the elevator.

The entire crew gets their jobs sorted out, Myron’s family joins the meal, and the muscles adapt to new labor.