HALF BROKE HORSES PB B FORMAT – JEANNETTE WALLS

Readers fell in love with Jeannette Walls unforgettable family in The Glass Castle. Now discover how it all began for the Walls family… I never knew a girl to have such gumption, [Mom would] say. But I m not too sure that s a good thing. Meet Lily Casey Smith: horse-trainer, airplane pilot, flapper, mother and teacher. Born in 1901 in the rolling grassland of West Texas, Lily grows up with a passion for horses and an indomitable spirit. At age 15 she leaves home, riding 500 miles across the American West on her beloved pony Patch, her pearl-handled six-shooter by her side. Her goal: a teaching post in a frontier-town school. Lily will handle everything life throws at her – flash-floods, tornadoes, the Great Depression, a swindling husband, love and heartbreak – with courage, determination and a smile as wide as the Texas skies.*~*~* With convincing, unprettified narration, Walls weaves her own ancestor into this collective rough-and-tumble heritage… [Walls is] the third generation of a line of indomitable women whose paths she has inscribed on the permanent record, enriching the common legend of our American past New York Times A commendable chronicle of an admirably tough woman on America s western frontier Washington Post Has immense power and readibility… What it does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland The Times