{"product_id":"half-broke-horses-paperback","title":"Half Broke Horses (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders fell in love with Jeannette Walls' unforgettable family in \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e. Now discover how it all began for the Walls family...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I never knew a girl to have such gumption,' [Mom would] say. 'But I'm not too sure that's a good thing.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLily 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.*~*~*\u003cbr\u003e'With \u003cb\u003econvincing, unprettified narration\u003c\/b\u003e, Walls weaves her own ancestor into this collective rough-and-tumble heritage... [Walls is] the third generation of a line of \u003cb\u003eindomitable women\u003c\/b\u003e whose paths she has inscribed on the permanent record, enriching the common legend of our American past' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A commendable chronicle of \u003cb\u003ean admirably tough woman\u003c\/b\u003e on America's western frontier' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Has \u003cb\u003eimmense power and readibility\u003c\/b\u003e... What it does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeannette Walls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050908827826,"sku":"9781847398314","price":290.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/152699_106197_63f0b715e9ec94.58627609_9781847398314.jpg?v=1770639363","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/half-broke-horses-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}