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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.
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Man of the Family (Hardcover)
Ralph Moody; Illustrated by Edward Shenton
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R618
R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and
the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern
route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not
remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then
businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail
between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint
Joseph, Missouri--across two thousand miles of mountains, deserts,
and plains--guaranteed in ten days or less. Russell hired eighty of
the best and bravest riders, bought four hundred of the fastest and
hardiest horses, and built relay stations along a central
route--through modern-day Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, and Nevada, to California. Informed by his intimate knowledge
of horses and Western geography, Ralph Moody's exciting account of
the eighteen critical months that the Pony Express operated between
April 1860 and October 1861 pays tribute to the true grit and
determination of the riders and horses of the Pony Express.
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.
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.
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.
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