Half broke horses : a true-life novel /
Walls, Jeannette.
Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. - 1st Scribner hardcover ed. - New York : Scribner, 2009. - 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
1416586288 (hardcover) 1416586296 (pbk.) 9781416586289 (hardcover) 9781416586296 (pbk.)
2009018781
Arizona--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Texas--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. - 1st Scribner hardcover ed. - New York : Scribner, 2009. - 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
1416586288 (hardcover) 1416586296 (pbk.) 9781416586289 (hardcover) 9781416586296 (pbk.)
2009018781
Arizona--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Texas--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.