Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.
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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- ISBN: 9781416586289
- ISBN: 1416586288
- ISBN: 9781416586296
- ISBN: 1416586296
- Physical Description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner edition
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2009.
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- Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.5 13 133777.
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| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F WALLS (Text) | 39493106607965 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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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.
