Walls, Jeannette. <br/><br/>
Half broke horses :  a true-life novel / 
Jeannette Walls. 
 - New York :  Scribner,  c2009. 
 - 336 p. ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1439195714 (pbk.) 9781439195710 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ranches--Fiction.<br/>Teachers--Fiction.<br/>Families--Fiction.<br/>Western stories
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Arizona--Fiction.<br/>Texas--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.6  / WAL 2009