Ralph Moody

Ralph Moody was born in 1898 in East Rochester, New Hampshire. In 1906, when he was eight, his family moved to a ranch near Littleton, Colorado, hoping that the dry climate would help his father, Charles, who had tuberculosis. He described these years in Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers (1950). After his father died, eleven-year-old Ralph became the 'man of the house', and with his sister Grace he took odd jobs to help their mother. The family later returned to New England, and Ralph went to live on his grandfather's farm in Maine, the subject of The Fields of Home. As a young man he roamed the West, working as a farmhand and performing horse falls for films. In 1922 he married Edna Hudgins, and they had three children. He worked in business in Kansas City and California. His formal schooling was limited, but at fifty he enrolled in a writing class, which led to his first book. He wrote seventeen books, mostly about the American West. He died in 1982.

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