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Author Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882-1988.

Title Tales of an old horsetrader : the first hundred years / by Leroy Judson Daniels ; as told to Helen S. Herrick.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1987.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series A Bur oak original
Bur oak original.
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 sold all manner o.
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Subject Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882-1988.
Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882-1988.
Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882-
Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
Businesspeople.
United States.
Horse industry -- United States -- History.
Horse industry.
History.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Herrick, Helen S.
Other Form: Print version: Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882- Tales of an old horsetrader. 1st ed. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1987 0877451737 (DLC) 87010932 (OCoLC)15656966
ISBN 1587290405 (electronic book)
9781587290404 (electronic book)