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Little Britches

Little Britches
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803281783

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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.


The Dry Divide

The Dry Divide
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803282162

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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.


Mary Emma & Company

Mary Emma & Company
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803282117

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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.


Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803282452

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Stagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri. Starting with the evolution of overland passenger transportation, Moody moves on to paint a lively and informative picture of western stagecoaching, from its early short runs through its rise with the gold rush, its zenith of 1858–68, and beyond. Its story is one of grand rivalries, political chicanery, and gaudy publicity stunts, traders, fortune hunters, outlaws, courageous drivers, and indefatigable detectives. We meet colorful characters such as Charlie Parkhurst, a stagecoach driver who took an amazing secret to his death: “he” was actually a woman. Using contemporary accounts, illustrations, maps, and photographs to flesh out his narrative, Moody creates one of the most important accounts of transportation history to date.


Come on Seabiscuit!

Come on Seabiscuit!
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780803282872

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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 and shattering speed records across the country. Moving and inspirational, "Come on Seabiscuit!" is a reminder of the qualities that make a real American champion.


Shaking the Nickel Bush

Shaking the Nickel Bush
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803282186

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Begun in Little Britches and Man of the Family, this is the continuing saga of Ralph Moody. In 1918, young Moody and his buddy Lonnie travel through the Southwest in an old Ford named Shiftless, camp in an Arizona canyon and "shake the nickel bush" by sculpting busts of lawyers and bankers.


American Horses

American Horses
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780803232488

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Discusses the origins and history of various horse breeds in America, including the Morgan, Tennessee Walking Horse, and American Saddle Horse.


The Home Ranch

The Home Ranch
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803282100

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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.


Cattle Annie And Little Britches

Cattle Annie And Little Britches
Author: Robert Ward
Publisher: Gallery Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781440555039

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Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them. The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin. Annie shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister Jenny finds a father figure in Doolin, who calls her Little Britches. Doolin's efforts to live up to the girls' vision of him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he waits to be hanged.