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    Horse of a Different Color
    Horse of a Different Color
    Horse of a Different Color
    Audiobook9 hours

    Horse of a Different Color

    Written by Ralph Moody

    Narrated by Cameron Beierle

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    About this audiobook

    In the early 1920’s cowboy and dry-range farmer, Ralph Moody, found himself with mountainous debts through the collapse of the livestock market, and the dealings of a crooked partner. He faces the choice of declaring bankruptcy before he turns twenty, or working off the intimidating balance against him. His fortunes seem to be turning when a flash flood takes all he owns, and he is forced to auction off his farm and animals. Ralph never surrenders, but finds a way to turn tragedy into opportunity. Overhearing a conversation on a railroad supply contract, he decides to place a bid. Winning the contract and digging himself out of debt, he also saves a Kansas town from total bankruptcy....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateDec 15, 2002
    ISBN9781581164565
    Horse of a Different Color

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    • 4/5
      This is a memoir written in the 1960s, about a young man's beginnings in Kansas in the early 1920s. It is the last in the Little Britches series. "Bud" arrives when he is a mere twenty years old and we learn about three years of his life. I'm sure some of it is fictionalized, after all, he wrote this forty years after the events. That does not lessen the spirit of it though. It is amazing what a young man could do at that time if he was motivated and had good sense and good council.I did not find the storytelling as engaging in this book as it was in the first story, Little Britches. The narrator is monotone. However, the circumstances he finds himself in are compelling, and I found it hard to put down. Moody paints a detailed picture of rural life in 1920s America. When I read of his struggles, his hopes, dreams, plans and failures, I could not help but think of my own father and his father; their life-long love affair with the land, and struggle to wrest a living from it.

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    • 3/5
      Coming-of-age theme, and told in a vernacular style. The repetitive descriptions of being a drover and setting up a business in livestock, the theme would be unlikely to engage a younger reader. Since this is the dénouement to the Little Britches narrative, it was not clear what audience the author intended to aim his tale of a cowboy going into the meat business and reaching marriageable age. Overall, the attempts to keep from losing his livelihood on a number of occasions was frustrating. For example, the naivety of storing all his savings in the cuffs of his Levis (denim jeans) would seem unbelievable to today's YA readers.
    • 4/5
      The final chapter in Moody's series of memoirs, this one takes place when he's in his early twenties. Interesting that he never wrote about anything later in his life- and kind of sad, too. He's just as competent in this one as the earlier ones, teaching himself several new trades including butchering. There are some interesting characters here, and some fun stories. Worth a listen.