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The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Massachusetts in 1912, when Ralph enters his teens. There, he discovers that just little things that would have been all right in Colorado now get him into trouble. He is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds adventures every bit as colorful as those described in Little Britches and Man of the Family. Illustrated. 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.
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
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
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
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 whea
