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Ralph Moody (author)
Ralph Owen Moody was an American author who wrote 17 novels and autobiographies about the American West. He was born in East Rochester, New Hampshire in 1898 but moved to Colorado with his family when he was eight in the hopes that a dry climate would improve his father Charles's tuberculosis...
(1898–1982) early life in the vicinity of Littleton, Colorado
Littleton, Colorado
Littleton is a Home Rule Municipality contained in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. Littleton is a suburb of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area. Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe County and the 20th most populous city in the state of...
. This is the first book in the very popular series on Moody's life. This book has been in print continuously since 1950.
One valued lesson passed on by Moody: the importance of water rights and the challenges these can profoundly have on a community.
This book spans the years from 1906 to 1910. Moody was eight when his father moved to Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, and eleven when his father died.
Editions
- New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1950.
- New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1962.
- Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books (reprint edition), 1986. ISBN 0-89966-563-2
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8032-8178-1
- Spokane, WA: Books In Motion, 2000. Audiobook ISBN 1-58116-184-0