Half broke horses : a true-life novel
(2009)
By:
Walls, Jeannette
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/WALLS,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2009
EDITION
First Scribner hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781416586289 (hardcover), 1416586288 (hardcover), 9781416586296
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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