Everyone Planted Wheat and Laughed at His Sorghum — When the Drought Hit, He Was the Only One With a
In the spring of 1976, in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, a 40-year-old farmer named Howard Jessup, made a decision that his neighbors would laugh…
The JD Dealer Bet $15,000 His New Tractor Would Crush the Junkyard Farmall — He Lost Everything in 9
On a Saturday afternoon in August of 1975 at the Plat County Fair in Columbus, Nebraska, a John Deere dealer named Wayne Puit…
They Mocked the Last Farmer Still Using Mules in 1970 — When Gas Prices Tripled, He Was the Only One
In the spring of 1970, on a dirt road outside of Lamar, Missouri, a John Deere dealer named Curtis Vance pulled his truck…
The JD Dealer Offered $500 For His Junk Farmall and Called Him Crazy — 15 Years Later He Begged to B
On a Tuesday afternoon in March of 1971, a 45-year-old Kansas farmer named Virgil Stanton walked into the John Deere dealership in Selena…
In the spring of 1972, in a hospital room in Champagne, Illinois, a dying farmer named Walter Hoffman called his two sons to…
The JD Dealer Laughed at His $75 Junk Tractor — What He Found Inside the Engine 16 Years Later Chang
On a Saturday morning in April of 1969 at the Dawson County Equipment Auction in Lexington, Nebraska, a 22-year-old farmer named Dale Perkins…
The scent of pine and lightning is supposed to be a gift. For Lana, it was a death [clears throat] sentence. In one…
She was the pack’s phantom, the wolfless girl living in the shadow of the mountain. Scorned by the very people she was forced…
May 9th, 1965. 11:47 p.m. The Seavoy Hotel, London. Donovan Leech was 19 years old and absolutely certain he could outplay Bob Dylan.…
Los Angeles, July 1972. A Tuesday morning that begins the way Tuesday mornings begin in Southern California in the summer, which is with…