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The John Deere Story: A Biography Of Plowmakers John & Charles Deere

  • ISBN13: 9780875803364
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Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing debt in New England in the 1830s, set up shop in a little town on the Illinois frontier. There, in response to farmers’ struggles, he designed a new plow that cut through the impervious prairie sod and lay open the ric… More >>

The John Deere Story: A Biography Of Plowmakers John & Charles Deere

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