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Bill Canavan rode into the valley with a fast Appaloosa and only three dollars in his pocket. All his life he'd worked for other men. Now he's ready to settle down and he's found the perfect place. But rustlers turned ranchers rule the valley he's chosen, and behind their respectability they are still outlaws at heart. Canavan isn't about to back down to their threat of trouble. He's staked his claim.to ranch and to a woman as wild and beautiful as...
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Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary.
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Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also available as Bison Books.
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Ralph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him shared in the prosperity - the widow whose wheat crop was saved and the group of misfits who formed a first-rate harvesting crew. But sometimes fickle Mother Nature and frail human nature made sure...
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[2017]
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Life is terrific for Andrea Carter, the only thing she loves more than helping to run the Circle C Ranch is spending time racing and stunt-riding on her horse, Shasta, with the help of wrangler Riley Prescott. Little does she know that when she and Riley stumble onto a mysterious cut in the fence around her brother's prize calves, life is about to get far more exciting and dangerous.
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[2002]
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In the early 1920s, Moody faces the challenge of a collapsing market for cattle and a dishonest partner. After losing his ranch, he takes a chance on a railroad supply contract and, in the process, saves himself and a Kansas town from total bankruptcy.
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