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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.


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.


Shaking the Nickel Bush/ by Ralph Moody ; Illustrated by Tran Mawicke

Shaking the Nickel Bush/ by Ralph Moody ; Illustrated by Tran Mawicke
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1994
Genre: Airzona
ISBN: 9780803282186

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"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.


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.


Little Britches

Little Britches
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1962
Genre:
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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.


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.


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.


Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier

Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
Author: Ralph Moody
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2021-12-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1496208242

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In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing the prairie on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit Carson (1809-68) wanted to be a mountain man, and he spent his next sixteen years learning the paths of the West, the ways of its Native inhabitants, and the habits of the beaver, becoming the most successful and respected fur trapper of his time. From 1842 to 1848 he guided John C. Frémont's mapping expeditions through the Rockies and was instrumental in the U.S. military conquest of California during the Mexican War. In 1853 he was appointed Indian agent at Taos, and later he helped negotiate treaties with the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, Arapahos, Cheyennes, and Utes that finally brought peace to the southwestern frontier. Ralph Moody's biography of Kit Carson, appropriate for readers young and old, is a testament to the judgment and loyalty of the man who had perhaps more influence than any other on the history and development of the American West.


Bull by the Horns

Bull by the Horns
Author: Sheila Bair
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451672497

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The former FDIC Chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the greatest crisis the U.S. has faced since the Great Depression.