What she found was that the plight of the many farmers who contacted her at a small new office in Bismark, was "much more serious than I had imagined". What Grey found was a woman whose face reflected a dedication to her clients that kept her moving through dying towns like Minnewauken, North Dakota (above) where she stopped to report she was running late for a meeting in Jordan, Montana --300 miles from her home. It was there she met Ralph Clark and and his wife (left). After a late night session with them, she agreed to defend them in an Farmers Home debt foreclosure hearing on their 7000 acre sheep and grain operation in Montana the next day. As she had expected, the Clarks lost and Grey caught the stoic moment the farm the family had homesteaded in l913 would go on the auction block.
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