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Tales of an Old Horsetrader : The First Hundred Years / Leroy Judson Daniels ; as told to Helen S. Herrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882-1988, author.
- Series:
- Bur oak book.
- Bur Oak Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Businesspeople--United States--Biography.
- Businesspeople.
- Horse industry--United States--History.
- Horse industry.
- Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882-1988.
- Daniels, Leroy Judson.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1987]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leroy Daniels was born in 1882 near Adair, Iowa. When he was ten, his father gave him a pony and a checkbook and sent him out to buy cattle. By the time he was sixteen, he was alone on a ranch in Montana with a herd of seventy wild horses to break. At twenty-one, he was trading horses in the Chicago stockyards, where he told Henry Ford that a horse was better than a car any day. At one hundred, he retired to tell his memoirs.The years in between are well worth reading about. Lee Daniels followed a plow all day long, worked coal to make ends meet, raised and traded and so
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Montana; 2. The Daniels Family; 3. My Early Days; 4. On My Own; 5. The Chicago Stockyards; 6. Girl Business; 7. Lessons in Poker and Mining; 8. Indians; 9. Mina and Me, and the Kids; 10. War Talk and Gold Mines; 11. The Army-Horse Business; 12. Almost out of the Army; 13. Back on the Farm; 14. Daniels and McNair, Commission Men; 15. Horsetrading; 16. A Killer Depression and Killer Horses; 17. Sale Barn Days; 18. The Wild Horse; 19. Trick Horses and Trick Mules; 20. Trick People; 21. Sheepdogs and Sheepherders; 22. Slaughtering; 23. Changes; 24. Little Lena Bennett
- 25. Belva, and a Bit of AdviceAfterword, by Helen S. Herrick
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781587290404
- 1587290405
- OCLC:
- 44960366
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