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In the spring of 1961, nine-year-old Della Pruitt spent every cent in her coat pocket on a coffee can filled with rusted horseshoes at a Kansas farm liquidation sale. The men around her laughed as she carried home what looked like thirty-five cents of useless iron. For years, the story followed her through Pratt County as proof that Harlan Pruitt’s youngest daughter saw value where none existed. They stopped laughing in 1983. By then, Della had turned discarded metal, inherited skill, and twenty years of patience into a debt-free farm business strong enough to survive an agricultural collapse—and write a $54,400 check while neighbors were losing land to foreclosure.

In the spring of 1961, nine-year-old Della Pruitt spent every cent in her coat pocket on a coffee can filled with rusted horseshoes at a…

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