The John Deere Story

by Jeremy Dahlstrom and Neil Dahlstrom

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803369
• ISBN13: 9780875803364
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher