Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Type

Book

Authors

Walls, Jeannette

ISBN 10

0743597230

ISBN 13

9781416586289

Tags

Memoirs, Biographical, Westerns, Coming of Age, United States, Literary, Smith, Lily Casey, Texas, Arizona, Teachers, Ranches, Families, Western stories, Married people

Abstract

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.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Autobiographical fiction
Biographical fiction
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION
Fiction
Named Person: Lily Casey Smith; Lily Casey Smith
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jeannette Walls
ISBN: 9781416586289 1416586288 9781416586296 1416586296
OCLC Number: 310397067
Awards: Commended for Audies (Narration Author(s)) 2010
Description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Jeannette Walls.

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