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Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.
By: Walls, Jeannette
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TextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2009Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.Description: 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781416586289; 9781416586296 (pbk.).Subject(s): Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 -- Fiction | Ranches -- Fiction | Teachers -- Fiction | Married people -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Western stories | Arizona -- Fiction | Texas -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.6 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 813.6 W159h 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003736246 |
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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