num_pages: 272
description: Early 1900s Colorado. Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new ranch life. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Determined Grace and religious Mother cooks beans, bread and repair lace curtains while Ralph builds frames and delivers baking.
language: English
title: Man of the Family
titlecomplete: Man of the Family (Little Britches, #2)
genres: Biography, Classics, History, Autobiography, Historical, Childrens, Nonfiction, Westerns, Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3077
places: Colorado
series: Little Britches
publisher: Univ of Nebraska Press