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Summary. 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.
When Lily is eleven, a tornado destroys their house and the family moves back to their family ranch (which Dad dubs the KC Ranch) in New Mexico. At thirteen, Lily enrolls in a Catholic girls’ school. She loves learning and Mother Albertina, the school’s Mother Superior, encourages her to think about teaching.
While soldiers are fighting in World War I, Lily packs up her horse and rides 500 miles across New Mexico to work in a one-room school house. This was the start of her life-long love affair with teaching, and she worked in several schools throughout her long life.
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.
Synopsis. PDF Cite. Joyce Hart, M.A. | Certified Educator. Jeannette Walls is the author of the best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, published in 2005. In Half Broke Horses, Walls tells...
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.
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