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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Main Author: Walls, Jeannette
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2009.
Edition:1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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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.
Physical Description:272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781416586289 (hardcover)
1416586288 (hardcover)
9781416586296 (pbk.)
1416586296 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona on April 21, 1960. She graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York City for twenty years. Her books include a memoir entitled The Glass Castle and several novels including Half Broke Horses and The Silver Star.

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