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Half broke horses [large print] a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls. /

Walls, Jeannette. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1602855722
  • ISBN: 9781602855724
  • Physical Description: 390 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Edition: [large print]
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Pub., 2009.
Subject:
Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 > Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Arizona > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Arizona > 20th century > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Texas > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Texas > 20th century > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Genre:
Autobiographical fiction.
Large print books.

Available copies

  • 12 of 13 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Sneads Ferry Branch Library LP FIC WALLS (Text) 36015001295068 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Swansboro Branch Library LP FIC WALLS (Text) 36015000889333 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -

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