Half broke horses /
Walls, Jeannette.
Half broke horses / Jeannette Walls. - 272 pages ; illustration, 24 cm
First published in the USA by Scribner, 2009.
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.
9781847376756
Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 --Fiction.
American literature
Ranches--Fiction.
Teachers--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Arizona--Fiction.
Texas--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction
PS3623.A3644 / H35 2009
Half broke horses / Jeannette Walls. - 272 pages ; illustration, 24 cm
First published in the USA by Scribner, 2009.
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.
9781847376756
Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 --Fiction.
American literature
Ranches--Fiction.
Teachers--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Arizona--Fiction.
Texas--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction
PS3623.A3644 / H35 2009
