Books published by publisher The Ward Ritchie Press

The mightiest Back of them all was the loving father of a talented brood of children. All of them sang and most of them played instruments, composted music and assisted their father in his various positions as teacher, compoer of church music and choir director. This beautifully conceived and illustrated book is a feast for the eye as well as the imagination and will delight and inspire an appreication of music by children.

Vintage retired library hardcover has a lovely decorative dustjacket nicely protected in mylar. Has all the usual library markings, clean book and built to stay that way. Fantastic story of the Indiana boy who ran away to make his fortune in the Gold rush ending up as a muckracking editor of the aptly named Los Angeles newspaper, the Porcupine, which took on the LAPD, water, roads and politics in a style still controversial. Much of the California last frontier days along the way as well as state politics, journalism and the myths of hutzapa (sic)