Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.2
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
78228
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
230
Points per Page
0.056522
Description
It is 1919 and Ralph Moody, just twenty, has only a dime in his pocket when he is put off a freight in western Nebraska. Three months later he owns eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them.