The Fields of Home

'One of the happiest pieces of Americana produced in our times ...rich in good talk, good food, good living, and best of all, good people. It is the kind of book you keep hoping will never end' - "Chicago Tribune". 'As bright and clean as clear water bubbling over rocks in a trout stream' - "New York Times". 'A lively story ...warm with humor; bright with incident and personality' - "San Francisco Chronicle". The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. 'I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck', he says at the beginning of "The Fields of Home". 'Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble'. So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures. More Bison Books by Ralph Moody: "The Dry Divide"; "The Home Ranch"; "Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover"; "Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers"; "Man of the Family"; "Mary Emma & Company"; and, "Shaking the Nickel Bush". 'Ralph Moody's books should be read aloud in every family circle in America' - "Sterling North". '[Moody] has a splendid talent for bringing the ashes of the past into life' - "Chicago Sunday Tribune".

ISBN 0803281943   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780803281943 (What's this?)   Pages 335 Publisher University of Nebraska Press   Volumes 1 Imprint University of Nebraska Press   Weight (grammes) 363 Format Paperback   Published in Lincoln Publication date 01 Jun 1993   Height (mm) 203 Illustrator Edward Shenton   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress PS3563.O55   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 974.1041092   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

"One of the happiest pieces of Americana produced in our times . . . Rich in good talk, good food, good living, and best of all, good people. It is the kind of book you keep hoping will never end."--"Chicago Tribune"

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