Ralph Moody

The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Massachusetts in 1912, as Ralph enters his teen years....

The Moody family moves from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch....

Ralph "Little Britches" Moody must take on responsibilities as the man of the family after his father's death....

At age 11, Ralph becomes man of the family and an entrepreneur....

Now 19 years old, skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by his Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate out West....

At age 13, Ralph "Little Britches" Moody moves with his mother, Mary Emma, and five siblings to Massachusetts....

Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas....

Ralph has just turned 20, and lands in Western Nebraska with only one dime in his pocket....

In the early 1920s, cowboy and dry-range farmer Ralph Moody finds himself with mountainous debts through the collapse of the livestock market and the dealings of a crooked partner....

During the Great Depression, Seabiscuit captured American hearts from the soup kitchens to the White House....

Who would have believed that a knobby-kneed little colt called Seabiscuit would become one of the most celebrated racehorses of all time....

The name still sends shivers down the spine and has the power to draw in young readers: Geronimo, the legendary Indian who inspired and fought for his people....