Walls, Jeannette.
Summary: A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother who runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tonadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Jeannette Walls unfolds the story of Lily Casey Smith. Born tough, Lily shoed her first horse at age six, moved to the western frontier at age fifteen, and soon learned to drive a car and fly an airplane. Always filled with adventure, Lily's life held witness to several disasters, heartbreaks, and wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audioworks 2009
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Summary: In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place. He visits the world's largest machine-gun shoot; takes a sunset boat cruise with a US Congressman and a group of far-right patriots; rides through the desert with a Border Patrol agent; and goes camping with his family in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster
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Summary: After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud errupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.J. Black, Inc. 1950
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Summary: Milt Dale takes shelter at an old log cabin in the forest. It is here he overhears vengeful men scheming to kidnap Helen, the niece and heiress of a prominent rancher in poor health, and take over her uncle's vast property themselves. Determined to thwart the men, Milt springs into action. After narrowly escaping, Milt leads Helen and her kid sister away from manmade danger and deep into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRESummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021