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Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls

By:

Walls, Jeannette, (, 1951-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , 2009.Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover edDescription: 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781416586289

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Autobiographical fiction

DDC classification:

FIC WAL

LOC classification:

PS3623.A3644 H35 2009

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014459

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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 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.

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