Authors: Ralph Moody, Edward Shenton (Illustrator), Tran Mawicke
ISBN-13: 9780803282100, ISBN-10: 0803282109
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: February 1994
Edition: Reprint
Western writer Ralph Moody (18981982) grew up in Carson territory in southeastern Colorado. He is the author of seventeen books, including Come on Seabiscuit! and his series Little Britches, all available in Bison Books editions.
During the summer of his twelfth year, Ralph works on a cattle ranch in the shadow of Pike's Peak, earning " man's wages" of a dollar a day. Little Britches is tested against an interesting array of seasoned cowboys, who tell Ralph, 'you play the hand you draw.'
These two volumes of Moody's memoirs recount his childhood in a Massachusetts town and a summer spent on a cattle ranch in the early 20th century. (Mar.)