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  • Little Britches

    Father and I Were Ranchers

    by Ralph Moody ...
    Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fields of Home

    by Ralph Moody ...
    The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Home Ranch

    by Ralph Moody ...
    Little Britches becomes the "man" in his family after his father's early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against seasoned cowboys on the range and in the corral. He drives cattle through a dust storm, eats his ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier

    by Ralph Moody ...
    In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing the prairie on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit Carson (1809–68) wanted to be a mountain man, and he spent his next sixteen years learning the paths of the West, the ways of its Native inhabitants, and the habits of the beaver, becoming the most successful and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Man of the Family

    by Ralph Moody ...
    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 twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Shaking the Nickel Bush

    by Ralph Moody ...
    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 Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he strikes out into new territory hustling odd jobs, facing the problem of getting fresh milk and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Come on Seabiscuit!

    by Ralph Moody ...
    Master storyteller Ralph Moody tells the thrilling story of a plucky horse who refused to quit, a down-on-his-luck jockey who didn’t let horrendous accidents keep him out of the saddle, and a taciturn trainer who brought out the best in both. During the Great Depression, Seabiscuit captured the hearts of Americans from the streets to the White House, winning more money than any horse at that time ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dry Divide

    by Ralph Moody ...
    Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity—the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Mary Emma & Company

    by Ralph Moody ...
    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. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Father & I Were Ranchers

    by Ralph Moody ...
    Narrated by Cameron Beierle ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Little Britches

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    In 1906 8 Yr old Ralph Moody moves with his family to a ranch for his fathers health. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Horse of a Different Color

    Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover

    by Ralph Moody ...
    "Ralph Moody's story is a perfect example of rural American enterprise in the early 1920s...this book is a glorious recollection of Pre-Dust Bowl, pre-Depression days and is highly recommended."—Library Journal***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, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Home Ranch

    by Ralph Moody ...
    Narrated by Cameron Beierle ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Little Britches

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    Ralph takes on more responsibilities after his fathers death. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook