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Friday, August 22, 2014

Book 36: Ralph Moody: The Home Ranch - Little Britches series

I'm currently reading "The Home Ranch" by Ralph Moody. It's part 3 of the ranch/wild west biography series starting with "Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers", first published in 1950. In 1970 Disney made a related movie called "The Wild Country" starring Ron and Clint Howard (but I think no overalls scenes like in the first book).

There's  10 x the word overalls in book #2 "Man of the Family", but I bought this 3rd novel where Ralph is 12 yo. He and his family moved to a ranch where he worked. His dad died one year ago, so he's the man of the family. 11x overalls is mentioned in #3.

I bought the actual black edition from publisher Bison (paperback, 280 pages). Illustrated by Tran Mawicke. There's also a good cover illustration on an earlier edition of "Man of the Family" showing a barefooted young boy (probably Ralph) in overalls on a horse. Good illustrations, but none showing bibs in book #3.

Page 16: Undressing bibs and putting a coin in the bib pocket before sleeping (sharing the bed with his little brother)

Page 30: men in bibs

Page 136: girl (from school ?) Hazel in bibs doing horse tricks

Page 180: pulling on bibs outside the bunk house

Page 186: man patching bibs. boy seeing his washed spare pair on fence

Page 237: pulling on bibs

Page 248: female teacher bibs+chaps

Page 265: forget to pull on bibs

Although illustrated, I don't like this book and had to read something else in between.

To those who prefer females, a (teen) girl is pictured on (can't say about the text):

Adrienne Richard: Wings. Set after WWI.

She also wrote "Pistol" about a farm boy during the Great Depression.

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