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(More customer reviews)Around Adair, Iowa, where Mr. Danels and his family were brought up and lived a good deal of their lives, "Lee," as he was known, was just another oldtimer with yarns to spin. It was up to a cousin from California to catch the romance of his tales and convince him to commit them to tape, from which she transcribed this book. The resourceful Mr. Daniels sustained himself by a variety of agricultural pursuits, beginning at about the start of the twentieth century, when he was 18 years old. But throughout his life, he returned to trading and selling horses, sometimes for the U.S. Cavalry, sometimes for his own profit. Along the way, he reared a family and had many adventures illustrative of life in rural mid-America during the century gone by. At the time his book came out, Mr. Daniels was a hale and hearty 105 years old.
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This is the memoir, taped and edited by his cousin, of a 108-year-old man who died in 1990. Daniels lived mostly between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. He was born in Iowa and farmed and bred all manner of livestock, with a particular love of horses. More than a review of his life, this is an oral recounting of over half the history of America, taking in the Civil War, the persecution of the Indians, Henry Ford's first motorcar and the evolution of the United States of today.
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