TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walls,Jeannette
TI  - Half broke horses
SN  - 9781847376756
AV  - PS3623.A3644 H35 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Simon Schuster
KW  - Smith, Lily Casey,
KW  - American literature
KW  - Ranches
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Families
KW  - Arizona
KW  - Texas
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
N1  - First published in the USA by Scribner, 2009
N2  - 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
ER  -