01763cam a2200385 i 4500 838830242 TxAuBib 20230610120000.0 100920s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 09018781 9781416586296 pbk. 1416586296 pbk. 9781416586289 ib. 1416586288 ib. (OCoLC)664572957 TxAuBib rda Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. 1st Scribner trade paperback ed. New York : Scribner, 2010. 272 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 8 books (270 p. ; 21 cm.) -- Content list -- Author biography & list of additional resources -- Discussion questions -- Sign-up sheet -- Book club kits policy/How to use the book kit. 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. 20230610. cat samper 20151218 jep/cjk. Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 Fiction. Ranches Fiction. Teachers Fiction. Families Fiction. Arizona Fiction. Texas Fiction.