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The Home Ranch (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R406
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The Home Ranch (Paperback, New Ed)

Ralph Moody

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For the real Western cowboy fan- young or old- this is a natural. I liked it best of the lot - and I've liked them all, from Little Britches on. Twelve and still "man of the family" Ralph talks his mother into letting him take a summer job on a cattle ranch, and this is the story of that summer. One gets every phase of the work on the home ranch, where Little Britches earns the right to be called Ralph, and treated like a responsible adult. Whether Mr. Batchlett, his boss, or Mr. Bendt, left in charge when the men go out on the roundup, is in charge, Little Britches is lucky in having an understanding, competent control on the reins of his impetuosity. But it is on his own that the boy gains understanding of his own faults, that he wins the friendship of Hazel Bendt, who is suspicious and resentful of a contemporary on the home ranch, and that he comes to terms with the horses he drew for his string. There's a bit of everything that goes on about the ranch - and the telling has the same warm, humorous, imaginative quality that gave the early books distinction. (Kirkus Reviews)
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 weight in flapjacks, and falls in love with a blue outlaw horse. 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. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books. Purchase the audio edition.

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Imprint: Bison Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 1994
First published: February 1994
Authors: Ralph Moody
Dimensions: 203 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 277
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8210-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > General
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 0-8032-8210-9
Barcode: 9780803282100

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