Half broke horses [text (large print)] : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.
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.
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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. |
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- 5 of 5 copies available at Sage Library System.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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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 | - |