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Half Broke Horses is the story of Lily Casey Smith's life. Author Jeannette Walls, the granddaughter of Lily Casey Smith, wrote the book from Lily's perspective. As a child growing up on the frontier in Texas, Lily learns how to break horses.
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6 paź 2009 · Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere.
Walls’s new book, “Half Broke Horses,” a novelistic re-creation of the life of her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, in the first half of the 20th century, told in her grandmother’s voice,...
Breaking horses by the age of six, having her broken arm re-set by her own father, saving her siblings from a flash flood, and traveling alone 500 miles on horseback to teach school all occurred by age fifteen.
The pert style of “Half Broke Horses” is much more repetitive and grating than the more spontaneous-sounding voice Ms. Walls used to describe her own life. But the author comes from a family that knew how to lure horses using grain, not rope. And she has inherited a version of that skill.
By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a...
