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 | Moody, Ralph | Ralph Moody, just turned 20, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight train in western Nebraska. It was the 4th of July, 1919. Three months later he owned 8 teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him… | Biography & History | |
 | Moody, Ralph | “Horse of a Different Color” ends the “roving days” of young Ralph Moody. His saga began on a Colorado ranch in “Little Britches” and continued at points east and west in “Man of the Family,” “The Fields of Home,” “The Home Ranch,” “Mary Emma & Company,” “Shaking the Nickel Bush,”… | Biography & History | |
 | Moody, Ralph | Ralph Moody was eight in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a ranch in Colorado. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the 20th century. This wonderfully told true story is full of excitement and adventure. Paper. 260 pp. | Biography & History | |
 | Moody, Ralph | Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the 20th century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Continues the true pioneering adventures as unforgettable… | Biography & History | |
 | Moody, Ralph | The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness… | Biography & History | |
 | Moody, Ralph | Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also available in Bison Books editions. Now nineteen years old… | Biography & History | |
 | Moody, Ralph | The author’s share of hardships and heart-throbs, revealed in ‘Little Britches’ and ‘Man of the Family’ continue when the family, moved from Colorado to the East, send him to work on his grandfather’s farm in Maine. | Biography & History | |
 | Moody, Ralph | Following Little Britches and developing an episode noted near the end of Man of the Family, The Home Ranch continues the adventures of young Ralph Moody. Soon after returning from the ranch, he and his mother and siblings will go east for a new start, described in Mary Emma & Company and The Fields of Home… | Biography & History |