Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

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. Jeannette walls.

Publisher: Scribner