age ~68
from Mooresville, NC
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
184
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803283059
EAN Code
9780803283053
ISBN #
8
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
260
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803281781
EAN Code
9780803281783
ISBN #
1
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Sterling
ISBN #
1402736126
EAN Code
9781402736124
ISBN #
10
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
230
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803282168
EAN Code
9780803282162
ISBN #
9
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
236
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803282184
EAN Code
9780803282186
ISBN #
7
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
235
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803282117
EAN Code
9780803282117
ISBN #
6
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803282176
EAN Code
9780803282179
ISBN #
5
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...
Author
Ralph Moody
Binding
Paperback
Pages
279
Publisher
Bison Books
ISBN #
0803282109
EAN Code
9780803282100
ISBN #
4
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 (18861971) was an American actor with over 50 movie and over 100 television appearances. His known roles were a kindly old man & Native...
ISBN #
10
Ralph Owen Moody (December 16, 1898 June 28, 1982) was an American author who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies largely about the American West...
ISBN #
9