Bibliograph

Half broke horses, a true-life novel, Jeannette Walls

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Half broke horses, a true-life novel, Jeannette Walls

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Half broke horses

Medium

text large print

Oclc number

354854399

Responsibility statement

Jeannette Walls

Sub title

a true-life novel

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

Target audience

adult

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