Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesenâ€™s Out of Africa or Beryl Markhamâ€™s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.

â€œThose old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.â€ So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Wallsâ€™s no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier townâ€”riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one who is Jeannetteâ€™s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.

Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kindsâ€”against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didnâ€™t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesenâ€™s Out of Africa or Beryl Markhamâ€™s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-10-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-10-06
Format	Kindle eBook

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

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