Friday, February 11, 2011

Man of The Family

Carl Henry, Ralph Moody and Dutch Gunther,1955.
Henry and Gunther are characters in Moody's books.

Ralph Moody has taken a pretty biographical piece of literature and made it both palatable and interesting. As I read this book I at once longed for a "simpler" time-even if it wasn't all that simple.
To me this is the male version of Little House on the Prairie now Laura Ingalls Wilder may not agree with me but since I have three boys I totally felt as though I need to get them to read these books so that they can better understand this time period.
While searching the internet for more information on Mr. Moody I came across this. It has some great information on Mr. Moody and a little bit of the "rest of the story".

Of course if you want to read the entire series the remaining books are as follows:
  • Little Britches
  • Man of the Family
  • The Home Ranch
  • Mary Emma and Company
  • The Fields of Home
  • Shaking the Nickel Bush
  • The Dry Divide
  • Horse of a Different Color

  • Mr. Moody also wrote other books such as a work about the famous thoroughbred Seabiscuit called, Come on Seabiscuit. Let us all know what you thought about Man of the Family on Thursday, Feb 17th at Riley Walker's home. (Same neighborhood as last month & I will post address soon)
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