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Rocky Mountain High

A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

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Rocky Mountain High

By: Finn Murphy
Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
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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 pitting his dwindling cash against the mercurial buyers who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market.

Told with Murphy’s trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights into the 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.

©2023 Finn Murphy (P)2023 Recorded Books
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Tells it like it is! Entertaining and informative.
Good narraration. Easy to follow along. Exposes the pitfalls of the industry and the failures of our government and banking system.

Well written!

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Listened to the authors first book which was fascinating as was this one. Quick pace and informative but most importantly entertaining. Great narrator too!

Enjoyable!

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I enjoyed listening in on what turned out to be a personal story. It’s a good history of how hemp became legal in Colorado and the boom and bust of the hemp space.

I thought the business approach of the author was surprising considering his previous business acumen. Some hard lessons (re)learned.

I also thought it was interesting how marijuana adjacent the hemp industry is. I never really understood before and the author didn’t either.

He did by the time he got out of the hemp business.

I respect the character of the author and his partner and their efforts to make this succeed and eventually how they left the industry.

Rise and Fall of Hemp Growing

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