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Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.

By: Publication details: New York : Scribner, 2009.Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover edDescription: 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1416586288
  • 9781416586289 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 22
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.

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