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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780803281783 (0803281781)
ASIN: 803281781
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: University of Nebraska Bison
Pages no: 260
Edition language: English
Series: Little Britches (#1)
The clunky narration of this audio was a little distracting. The narrator enunciated each word very clearly, and always said thee for the and pronounced a as a long vowel. However, this didn't detract too much from the story, aside from being annoying.In this, his first memoir, Moody recounts the ti...
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