The Resource Half broke horses : a true-life novel, Jeannette Walls
Half broke horses : a true-life novel, Jeannette Walls
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416586289
- Label
- Half broke horses : a true-life novel
- Title
- Half broke horses
- Title remainder
- a true-life novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeannette Walls
- Subject
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- trueFamily relationships
- Autobiographical fiction
- trueDetermination
- trueDetermination (Personal quality)
- trueGrowing up
- trueMarriage
- trueRanches
- trueSurvival
- trueTeachers
- Texas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueThe West (United States)
- Arizona -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2009
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 324337
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Walls, Jeannette
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3623.A3644
- LC item number
- H35 2009
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Texas
- Arizona
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a true-life novel
- Label
- Half broke horses : a true-life novel, Jeannette Walls
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416586289
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2009018781
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- Imprint varies.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- 310397067
- (OCoLC)310397067
- Label
- Half broke horses : a true-life novel, Jeannette Walls
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 272 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416586289
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2009018781
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Imprint varies.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- 310397067
- (OCoLC)310397067
Subject
- trueFamily relationships
- Autobiographical fiction
- trueDetermination
- trueDetermination (Personal quality)
- trueGrowing up
- trueMarriage
- trueRanches
- trueSurvival
- trueTeachers
- Texas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueThe West (United States)
- Arizona -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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