TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moody,Ralph
TI  - Shaking the nickel bush
SN  - 0803282184
AV  - PS3563.O5535 S48 1994
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Moody, Ralph,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - United States
N1  - "Bison book editions."; 1200; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.8; 13.0; 51493
N2  - Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he strikes out into new territory, hustling odd jobs, facing the problem of getting fresh milk and leafy green vegetables. He scrapes around to survive, risking his neck as a stunt rider for a movie company; With an improvident buddy named Lonnie, he camps out in an Arizona canyon and "shakes the nickel bush" by sculpting plaster of paris busts of lawyers and bankers. This is 1918, and the young men travel through the Southwest not on horses but in a Ford aptly named Shiftless. New readers and old will enjoy this entry in the continuing saga of Ralph Moody
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