num_pages: 260
description: Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic color to Little Britches. So do wonderfully told adventures, which equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary.Newly republished in a hardcover edition with a 1950s cover, jacket and pictorial endpages. Interior illustrations by Edward Shenton.
language: English
title: Father and I Were Ranchers
titlecomplete: Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
genres: Classics, Autobiography, Historical, History, Childrens, Biography, School, Westerns, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14157
places: Colorado
series: Little Britches
publisher: University of Nebraska Bison