Nine Years In The Saddle Review

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(More customer reviews)In _Nine Years in the Saddle_, James V. Lee has told an important story. More than just the life of his father, it is the tale of an American hero. "Dud" Lee was a hero, not because he was some glossy rendition of a Hollywood ideal, but because he was an average, real person who survived and thrived in rough times. Thankfully, James Lee has written about those times. As editor of Doing It Write!, an e-newsletter for writers, I've seen my share of historical books. With _Nine Years in the Saddle_, you'll feel as though you're sitting by the fireplace, listening to Dud himself talk.
Dud's life, although only one or two generations ago, is foreign to modern teenagers. Bootlegging, lion hunting, working from ranch to ranch ... it all feels like something from an adventure book or a history tome. Knowing that this was a real person, the author's father no less, brings the story into reality. Few books have been written about the real people who lived and worked, and survived, this era of American history. By writing it down, and backing it up with pictures, Lee has preserved this slice of a time past. Helen Ginger

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Nine Years In The Saddle is a true-story western about the colorful years in the Southwest of a cowboy during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It tells the true story of a young man who scratched out a living in hard times by herding cattle, hunting mountain lions, and selling bootleg booze during Prohibition. You will be delighted with the humor and entranced by the real-life feats of adventure and danger of Dud Lee and his companions.--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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