Rudy Mudra Master Saddlemaker, Paperback by Ogle, Kathy Muller, Like New Used...

by Kathy Ogle

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Rudy Mudra Master Saddlemaker, Paperback by Ogle, Kathy Muller, ISBN 1547111917, ISBN-13 9781547111916, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US It is easy to imagine Edith and Rudy Mudra looking at the letter again. Could it be true? Five hundred dollars, it seemed like a fortune in 1933. At age 54, Rudy was laid off from Otto F. Ernst Inc. saddlery in Sheridan, Wyoming. With the Great Depression underway, they were camping in the Big Horn Mountains since they didn’t have money for rent. Lucky it was started in the 1920s. Leather workers were out of work everywhere. Throughout the 1920s, ranching and agricultural industries were struggling economically. The change from a horse power society to a machine powered society devastated the harness and saddle industry. Rudy and Edith had followed leather carving and saddlemaking job offers from Miles City, Montana to Billings, Montana and then to Sheridan, Wyoming. The job at Otto F. Ernst Inc. saddlery looked secure with Sheridan’s numerous dude ranches. But in two years, the Depression hit Otto F. Ernest Inc. saddlery and Rudy was let is easy to think that when Edith drove down the steep mountain road to Sheridan yesterday, Rudy hoped there would be a check in the mail from Connolly Saddlery in Billings for the leather belts he had carved earlier this month. Maybe it would cover groceries. After she left, it is likely that he laid his leather carving tools out on the picnic table and began to carve wild roses into scraps of leather

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781547111916
• Condition: Fine

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