“$4 a Ton, Forty Tons by November,” She Told the Rancher. In January He Came to Her Stackyard

“$4 a Ton, Forty Tons by November,” She Told the Rancher. In January He Came to Her Stackyard Montana Territory, July 1886. Josie Garrity told the cattleman Wes Calloway she would sell him forty tons of hay at four dollars a ton by November. He laughed at her in front of the whole store. Hearing no cattleman would stand behind her, his neighbour Orrin Tate cut her fence and drove four hundred head onto her uncut meadow. Josie saved twenty-two tons and sold her mare to pay her mower. Then the winter of 1886 came, and in January Wes Calloway rode to her stackyard to ask her price. It is a frontier romance about a price named early and a man who has to come back and pay it. western romance, frontier hay story, hard winter 1886, homestead woman, historical western audiobook What price would you have asked him? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe for the next story from The Standing Offer. #westernromance #frontier #historicalromance