Authors: Ralph Moody, Edward Shenton (Illustrator), Tran Mawicke
ISBN-13: 9780803281950, ISBN-10: 0803281951
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: Reprint
Ralph Moody (18981982) is the author of Come on Seabicuit! as well as the Little Britches series about a boy's life on a Colorado ranch, all available in Bison Books editions.
Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also available as Bison Books.