01753cam a2200421 4500 608500650 TxAuBib 20091026120000.0 090506s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009018781 9781416586289 hardcover 1416586288 hardcover 9781416586296 pbk. 1416586296 pbk. 9781602855724 1602855722 (OCoLC)310397067 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP UPZ B2A DOV ORX TxAuBib Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2009. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2009. 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 390 p. (large print) ; ill. ; 23 cm. 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. 20091026. Smith, Lily Casey 1901-1968 Fiction. Ranches Fiction. Teachers Fiction. Married people Fiction. Families Fiction. Arizona Fiction. Texas Fiction. Western stories. Autobiographical fiction. TXDCC