Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.
By: Walls, Jeannette
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, c2009Description: 336 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 1439195714 (pbk.); 9781439195710 (pbk.).Subject(s): Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 -- Fiction | Ranches -- Fiction | Teachers -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Western stories | Arizona -- Fiction | Texas -- FictionDDC classification: 813.6 Summary: A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.