Half broke horses
Subtitle: a true-life novel
By: Jeannette Walls.
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781416586289; 9781416586296; 9781439160534; 9780743597227; 9780743597234
Copyright date: 2009
Description: 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.