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FROM: Christine Perkins <[removed]@jcls.org>
REC'D: 2/7/01, 6:09 PM

Hello again,

Our patron has read a series of four books several times, but can't
remember the author or title.
Here are the clues:

May be non-fiction
Autobiographical
Man born / raised in Massachusetts, moves to the West (Wyoming?), returns
eventually to Massachusetts
It's about his life growing up as a young man in his early 20s to late
adulthood--in each book, he's older
Farm life, horse training, and rodeo are all involved
He may have become a technical writer at some point

I know this is not technically a fiction question, but it might ring a bell
for one of you prolific readers.

Thanks, as always, for your time.

--Christine Perkins

_____________________________
Christine Perkins | [removed]@jcls.org
Young Adult / Reference Librarian
Jackson County Library Services
413 West Main Street
Medford, Oregon 97501
(541) 774-6412

FROM: Darlene Peasley <[removed]@adelphia.net>
REC'D: 2/7/01, 6:42 PM

This one is just a guess and they may be older than you want, but there is a
series of four books by Ralph Moody about his family's move from New Hampshire
to Colorado. The books date from the 1950s. Titles are Little Britches, Man
of the Family, The Fields of Home and The Home Ranch

Christine Perkins wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> Our patron has read a series of four books several times, but can't
> remember the author or title.
> Here are the clues:
>
> May be non-fiction
> Autobiographical
> Man born / raised in Massachusetts, moves to the West (Wyoming?), returns
> eventually to Massachusetts
> It's about his life growing up as a young man in his early 20s to late
> adulthood--in each book, he's older
> Farm life, horse training, and rodeo are all involved
> He may have become a technical writer at some point
>
> I know this is not technically a fiction question, but it might ring a bell
> for one of you prolific readers.
>
> Thanks, as always, for your time.
>
> --Christine Perkins
>
> _____________________________
> Christine Perkins | [removed]@jcls.org
> Young Adult / Reference Librarian
> Jackson County Library Services
> 413 West Main Street
> Medford, Oregon 97501
> (541) 774-6412
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/8/01, 10:50 AM

>From: Darlene Peasley <[removed]@adelphia.net>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Nonfiction series about Massachusetts man?
>Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:41:13 -0500
>
>This one is just a guess and they may be older than you want, but there is
>a
>series of four books by Ralph Moody about his family's move from New
>Hampshire
>to Colorado. The books date from the 1950s. Titles are Little Britches,
>Man
>of the Family, The Fields of Home and The Home Ranch
>
>

More than four, actually, because later the family goes back to New England.
Other titles include "Mary Emma & Co." and "Shaking the Nickel Bush." (By
the way, the first two--"Little Britches" and "Man of the Family"--might
interest the 14-year-old boy whose mother is trying to hook him on Westerns;
they're not fiction, but they *do* have a young hero...)
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FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 9:14 AM

Could he be thinking about Ralph Moody. His New England family returns from northern Colorado to New England after their father's death, then after he grows up, he develops diabetes working in a WWI munitions factory, then goes west to Kansas, harvests wheat, runs a butcher shop, marries, and becomes an insurance agent.
Titles include _Little Britches_, _Man of the Family_, _The Home Ranch_, _Mary Emma & Company_, _The Fields of Home_, _Shaking the Nickel Bush_, _The Dry Divide_, and _Horse of a Different Color_. Wonderful reads.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@jcls.org 02/07/01 06:05PM >>>

Hello again,

Our patron has read a series of four books several times, but can't
remember the author or title.
Here are the clues:

May be non-fiction
Autobiographical
Man born / raised in Massachusetts, moves to the West (Wyoming?), returns
eventually to Massachusetts
It's about his life growing up as a young man in his early 20s to late
adulthood--in each book, he's older
Farm life, horse training, and rodeo are all involved
He may have become a technical writer at some point

I know this is not technically a fiction question, but it might ring a bell
for one of you prolific readers.

Thanks, as always, for your time.

--Christine Perkins

_____________________________
Christine Perkins | [removed]@jcls.org
Young Adult / Reference Librarian
Jackson County Library Services
413 West Main Street
Medford, Oregon 97501
(541) 774-6412

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