Ralph, however, had difficulty readjusting. The Moody clan returned to Boston some time after Charles's death, because Mary-Emma, Ralph's mother, was served a subpoena but did not want to appear in court against a man she believed to be innocent. He and his sister Grace combined ingenuity with hard work in a variety of odd jobs, including starting a street baking business, to help their mother provide for their large family. Moody detailed his experiences in Colorado in the first book of the Little Britches series, Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers.Īfter his father died, eleven-year-old Moody assumed the duties of the "man of the house". 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. Ralph Owen Moody (Decem– 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.
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