Walls, Jeannette.

Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. - New York, N.Y. : Scribner, c2009. - 272 p. : 1 ill. ; 24 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.

ISBN: 9781416586289 1416586288

LCCN: 2009018781

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Texas--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Arizona--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3623.A3644 / H35 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6