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Pioneer Plowmaker: A Story About John Deere
Pioneer Plowmaker A Story About John Deere Author:David R. Collins "The soil may be rich, but we can't pull a plow through it," farmers complained in the mid 1880s. The moist soil of the Midwest stopped any plow they used by sticking to the blade. The farmers thought a plow that could clean itself just couldn't be made. But John Deere didn't. The young blacksmith had not let impossibility and disaster stop him... more » before, and he wasn't about to now. In a lively and accurate text, biographer David R. Collins presents this hard-working, idealistic man whose steel plow opened up some of the world's richest farmland.« less