Ralph A Moody

Riders of the Pony Express

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...

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

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 authe...

Sterling Point Books®: Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath

The name still sends shivers down the spine and has the power to draw in young readers: Geronimo, the legendary Indian who inspired and fought for his people. But who was this man, really? Here is the riveting tale of the last Apache warrior —told by the author of the bestselling Little Britches. Bo...

The Dry Divide

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...

Shaking the Nickel Bush

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, h...

Mary Emma & Company (Bison Book)

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. "Mothe...

Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover

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 bee...

The Home Ranch (Bison Book)

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 agains...

Little Britches

Little Britches

Little Britches

American Horses

Riders of the Pony Express

Man of the Family

Little Britches

The Fields of Home

Ralph Moody (author)

Ralph Owen Moody (December 16, 1898 June 28, 1982) was an American author who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies about the American West. ...

Ralph Moody (actor)

Ralph Moody (18861971) was an American actor with over 50 movie and over 100 television appearances. His known roles were a kindly old man & Native...

Ralph Moody (author)

Ralph Owen Moody (December 16, 1898 June 28, 1982) was an American author who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies largely about the American West...

Ralph Moody

Ralph Moody (September 10, 1917, Taunton, Massachusetts June 9, 2004 ...