Half broke horses / Jeannette Walls.
By: Walls, Jeannette
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TextLanguage: İngilizce London : Simon Schuster, 2009Description: 272 pages ; illustration, 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847376756Subject(s): American literature
| Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 -- Fiction | Ranches -- Fiction | Teachers -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Arizona -- Fiction | Texas -- FictionGenre/Form: Autobiographical fiction LOC classification: PS3623.A3644 | H35 2009Summary: 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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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.
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