little britches father and i were ranchers

I love the feel of this story, knowing it's true and yet so well written. Ralph Moody is the Laura Ingalls of Colorado, only thirty years later. Can you imagine a people too ashamed to take private charity, never mind a government entitlement?

Gives a nice flavor of America back in the early 1900's. He was very happy when I ordered him the full series off the store.īTW, this series is highly recommended, even for adults. Old John telling me he was a friend of Ralph Moody, when John was a kid, was like telling me he knew Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote 'Little House'. This series for boys, is exactly what the 'Little House on the Prairie' series is for girls, when you are homeschooling. I had been homeschooling my son, and we LOVED the Little Britches series. You could have picked my jaw off the table. And the books were the 'Little Britches' series. Search engine, what's that?Īnyway he told me his friend, the author's name, Ralph Moody. But he wasn't much on computers, so in never occurred to him to search the internet. For him going out to kill an elk was no big deal. He may have been unfamiliar with that, but he was renowned for his knowledge of things like long-horn cattle and ranching generally. Watching him 'hunt and peck' was waiting 10 or 15 seconds for each character. He wasn't even familiar with keyboards or typewriters. He had just gotten a laptop, his first, but he had no clue. I said why don't you search the Internet. He said he used to know the author, back in Colorado.

Anyway one day he told me that he was looking for a series of books that he knew about, but no matter what bookstore he went in he could never find any. I'd go over there and chew the fat over breakfast and coffee. I had a old cowboy for a neighbor in Wyoming who had a lot of amazing stories to tell.

Little britches father and i were ranchers