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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, 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
fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure that nothing
was easy. The tension between opposing forces never lets up in this
book. Without preaching, The Dry Divide warmly illustrates the
old-time virtues of hard work ingenuity, and respect for others.
The Ralph Moody who was a youngster in Little Britches and who grew
up without a father and with early responsibilities in Man of the
Family, The Fields of Home, The Home Ranch, Mary Emma &
Company, and Shaking the Nickel Bush (all Bison Books) has become a
man to reckon with in The Dry Divide. 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.
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, and The Dry Divide. All have been reprinted 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.
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