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Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.A3644 H35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walls, Jeannette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968.
- Manners and customs.
- Texas--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Arizona--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968--Fiction.
- Arizona.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2009.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781416586289
- 1416586288
- 9781416586296
- 1416586296
- OCLC:
- 310397067
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