Format:
Book
Title:
Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.
Author:
Walls, Jeannette.
Call Number:
FIC WALLS J
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, 2009.
Description:
272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Subjects:
Texas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Arizona -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Autobiographical fiction.
ISBN:
9781416586289 (hardcover)
1416586288 (hardcover)
9781416586296 (pbk.)
1416586296 (pbk.)
* 9781439160534 (ebook)
* 1439160538 (ebook)
* 9780743597227 (audio cd)
* 0743597222 (audio cd)
* 9780743597234 (eaudio)
* 0743597230 (eaudio)