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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. At the age of fifteen, she rode five hundred miles, alone, to get to her job as a teacher in a one-room ...
Minnie is suddenly killed when her hair gets caught in factory machinery. Reflecting on how unpredictable life is, Lily cuts her own hair to just below her ears. Shortly afterwards she meets Ted Conover , a smooth-talking salesman.
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.
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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.
15 paź 2009 · 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...
Brief Synopsis. Plot Overview and Setting. "Half Broke Horses" is set in the rugged landscape of the American Southwest, primarily in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The narrative spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900s and continuing through the mid-20th century.
