Half broke horses a true-life novel
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, a...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781416586289 (hardcover) 1416586288 (hardcover) 9781416586296 (pbk.) 1416586296 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |
