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Product details
- ISBN 9780803281943
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1993
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"A lively story . . . warm with humor; bright with incident and personality."—San Francisco Chronicle
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures.
Western writer Ralph Moody (1898–1982) 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.
