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Half broke horses [text (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 ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: Center Point large print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point, 2009.
Subject: Large type books.
Women > Fiction.
Ranchers > Fiction.
Teachers > Fiction.
Texas > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Arizona > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 5 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Baker Halfway Branch WALLS (Jeannette) (Text) 37814002323153 LARGE PRINT - FICTION Available -
Baker Richland Branch WALLS (Jeannette) (Text) 37814002310721 LARGE PRINT - FICTION Available -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande LP Walls, J (Text) 35178001200198 Large Print Available -
Milton-Freewater Public Library LP Walls (Text) 37862000207753 Large Print Available -
Umatilla Public Library L.P. F Wal (Text) 37882001739851 Large Print Available -


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