Ralph Moody
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
The author of "Little Britches" "continues the story of his hard working Colorado childhood and recalls his 11 and 12 year old concentration on filling his dead father's shoes. There were a multitude of ways in which to help--riding herd on cattle drives through Littleton ; loaning his horse, Lady, for a cow ; taking orders for his Mother's New England cookery ; picking fruit, riding in horse races (this was kept from Mother), getting hay, coal and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there at the dawn of the century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes, and windstorms provide authentic color. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that prepare Ralph to take his father's place. The first volume of Moody's little Britches series, this time-tested favorite...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a youngster, the oldest boy of a big family, Ralph Moody lived valiantly through the ordeal of helping to establish the family on a barren Colorado ranch, starting from scratch in a broken-down three-room house. He tells their story of struggles and hardship
Author
Language
English
Description
This book continues the author's recollections of his youth which began with: Little Britches, published 1950. It tells of his experiences shortly after World War I as a Kansas livestock dealer. But it is also the story "of the people who had the courage and fortitude to wrest a livelihood from that land of killing droughts, searing heat, and violent storms."
9) Wells Fargo
Author
Series
North Star books volume 26
Language
English
Description
An authentic history of the Wells Fargo Company from its early beginnings in the East and its arrival in California in 1852 to is present position as one of the greatest banking institutions on the Pacific Coast.
10) Stagecoach west
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
1480L
Language
English
11) American Horses
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the horse and how they developed into pleasure horses in America.