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Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.

Walls, Jeannette. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416586289
  • ISBN: 1416586288
  • ISBN: 9781416586296
  • ISBN: 1416586296
  • Physical Description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.5 13 133777.
Subject: Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 > Fiction.
Texas > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Arizona > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Autobiographical fiction.

Available copies

  • 71 of 80 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Marion County. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Marion County Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 80 total copies.
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