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.