Half broke horses
By: by Jeannette Walls
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847376756
Subjects: Social life and customs; Arizona; Manners and customs; 20th century; Biographical fiction; Texas; Fiction
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.