Tales of an old horsetrader : the first hundred years /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
1987.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Bur oak original.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Business Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1587290405 9781587290404 |
