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    Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West
    Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West
    Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West
    Audiobook6 hours

    Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

    Written by Finn Murphy

    Narrated by Chris Henry Coffey

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    About this audiobook

    The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune … in hemp.

    After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in “the Hemp Space.” When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado
    became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Figuring he’d harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm. What could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything. …

    Rocky Mountain High is the comic chronicle of a wild year as Murphy follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit. Pivoting away from growing hemp himself, he decides to make himself a middleman. He builds drying sheds the size of football fields. He battles with
    freezing temperatures and even colder bankers. And he assembles an eclectic crew of workers, including the wry and vastly talented Manuel, the business savvy Pierce, and a scruffy army of “trimmigrants”—specialized farm laborers who roam the country pursuing (or not) their own American Dreams.
    Pretty soon, Murphy is burning through his cash and skirmishing with the mercurial denizens who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market.

    Told with Murphy’s trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights intothe hardscrabble society around him, Rocky Mountain High is an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp boom and a masterful tale of one entrepreneur’s misadventures.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 13, 2023
    ISBN9781705099490
    Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

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