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Half Broke Horses : : a True-Life Novel

Walls, Jeannette. Book - 2009 Fiction / Walls, Jeannette, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Walls, Jeannette None on shelf 6 requests on 7 copies Community Rating: 4.4 out of 5

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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 ran 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 remained a woman of indomitable spirit.

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pioneer submitted by unknown on March 18, 2010, 10:00pm Without women like Lily the story of American would be dull

A Wonderful Story submitted by monkk on July 1, 2011, 6:21pm I'd been putting off this book (even though I loved Jeannette Wall's The Glass Castle) I think because it's listed as fiction. Well, I finally picked it up and couldn't put it down. It also inspired me to read The Glass Castle again (for the fourth time!)

wonderful submitted by michael007 on July 4, 2013, 7:16am The book "Half broke horses : a true-life novel" is wonderful!

Riveting submitted by eharvey on August 5, 2014, 10:46pm While I was perhaps the only person ever to have thought The Glass Castle was dull, I absolutely loved Walls' other book, Half-Broke Horses. The heroine, Lily (Walls' grandmother) is a pistol of a woman whose spirit and determination reminded me of my own grandmother who grew up around the same time period. Once this story got going, it was difficult to put it down.

Gun toting granny tells it like it is submitted by mandevil on June 2, 2021, 2:59pm A fascinating story of ranching in Arizona

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PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 272 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781416586289
1416586288
9781416586296

SUBJECTS
Autobiographical fiction.