Ralph Owen Moody (December 16, 1898 – June 28, 1982) was an American writer who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies largely about the American West, though a few are set in New England. He was born in East Rochester, New Hampshire and moved to Littleton, Colorado in 1906 with his family when he was eight in the hopes that a dry climate would improve his father Charles's tuberculosis. Moody detailed his experiences in Colorado in the first book of the Little Britches series, Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers.
Historical books[]
- Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier (1955)
- Geronimo, Wolf of the Warpath (1958)
- Riders of the Pony Express (1958)
- Wells Fargo (1961)
- Silver and Lead: The Birth and Death of a Mining Town (1961)
- American Horses (1962)
- Come on Seabiscuit (1963)
- The Old Trails West (1963)
- Stagecoach West (1967)
Autobiographies[]
In historical order:
- Little Britches (also known as Father and I Were Ranchers) (1950)
- Man of the Family (1951)
- The Home Ranch (1956) (actually takes place within the same period of time covered in Man of the Family)
- Mary Emma & Company (1961)
- The Fields of Home (1953)
- Shaking the Nickel Bush (1962)
- The Dry Divide (1963)
- Horse of a Different Color (1968)
Play[]
- The Valley of the Moon (1966)[6]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Father and I Were Ranchers
- ↑ The Home Ranch
- ↑ Shaking the Nickel Bush
- ↑ The Dry Divide
- ↑ Horse of a Different Color
- ↑ Hackett, Raymond W.; Ralph Moody; Bohemian Club. The Valley of the Moon, the Sixty-first Grove Play. 1966