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Man of the Family (Hardcover)
Ralph Moody; Illustrated by Edward Shenton
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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, where he finds a new set of adventures. Purchase the audio
edition.
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
leafy green vegetables. He scrapes around to survive, risking his
neck as a stunt rider for a movie company. With an improvident
buddy named Lonnie, he camps out in an Arizona canyon and "shakes
the nickel bush" by sculpting plaster of paris busts of lawyers and
bankers. This is 1918, and the young men travel through the
Southwest not on horses but in a Ford aptly named Shiftless. New
readers and old will enjoy this entry in the continuing saga of
Ralph Moody. Purchase the audio edition.
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
father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the
literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of
his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.
Purchase the audio edition.
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,
and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own.
The family's run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in
winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. Mary Emma
& Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado
with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The
Home Ranch. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as
has The Fields of Home, in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts
town for his grandfather's farm in Maine. Purchase the audio
edition.
Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked
together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service
along the Erie Canal in the 1840s. In 1852 they incorporated Wells,
Fargo & Company and went into the express business in
California, carrying gold, letters, packages, and freight between
the mining regions and the financial centers of the East. They
registered the miners to receive deliveries, guarded the gold-dust
shipments, apprehended stage robbers, recovered stolen gold and
silver, and established a reliable, conservative banking house in
the world's wickedest city, San Francisco. They survived the
collapse of the mining industry, the great California panic of
1855, the depredations of bandits such as Rattlesnake Dick and
Black Bart, the dominance of the railroads, and the San Francisco
earthquake and fire. Acclaimed Western writer Ralph Moody tells the
exciting story of Henry Wells and his drivers, messengers, and
riders; his accountants, managers, and detectives; and how they
built a lasting empire in a business most entrepreneurs thought too
risky to try. Moody, author of more than a dozen books on Western
subjects, gives an action-packed account that readers young and old
will enjoy.
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