Walls, Jeannette  (, 1951-) <br/><br/>
Half broke horses  : a true-life novel 
/ Jeannette Walls 
 - 1st Scribner hardcover ed 
 - New York  : Scribner  , 2009. 
 - 272 p.  : ill.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416586289 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009018781 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Smith, Lily Casey , 1901-1968 ----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Texas---Social life and customs----Fiction<br/>Arizona----Social life and customs----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Autobiographical fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3623.A3644  / H35 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC WAL