Pioneer Plowmaker, A Story about John Deere

"The soil may be rich, but we can't pull a plow through it," farmers complained in the mid 1880's. 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 before, and he wasn't about to now. In a lively and accurate text, biographer Davis R. Collins presents this hardworking, idealistic man whose steel plow opened up some of the world's richest farmland.David R. Collins is the author of 'Pioneer Plowmaker, A Story about John Deere', published 2001 under ISBN 9780913163320 and ISBN 0913163325.