i'm kicking you out of my will. >> reporter: though she could never have inherited the land, that birthright was passed from father to son, not daughter. the custom started with the moore family patriarch, who handed the farm down to his two sons, roger and gus. each of them had a son born just a year apart, paul and peter, who were in line to one day run the farm as partners. cousins but raised more like brothers. here they are in 1978 in cut-offs fishing bare handed, latter day huck and tom. in 1980 they were on the same high school football team. roger's son, paul, was smart and handsome, bit of a playboy, while gus' boy peter just two rows down was tough and blunt, hot headed, really. >> pete has a reputation, i think, over in colusa county. his mouth basically has given him a reputation because of the things that he has said. >> i'm a little different than the rest of them. >> reporter: oh, boy. so he is.