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__**A True-Life Novel Half Broke Horses**__


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Summery:** "//Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did//." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. 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, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in //The Glass Castle//.

ScribnerPublished: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Copyright © 2009 BooksOnBoard.com. []



In this Hollywood history, "E" channel correspondent Jeannette Walls dishes up five decades of star-studded gossip--including scandals about Michael Jackson, Princess Diana, and Elizabeth Taylor.

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