"Discusses the invention of the John Deere plow and the man behind it, including the idea, the obstacles, and the eventual success" --

Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, thats who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, thats who!

Nothing runs like a Deere and nothing sums up the might of the American farm machine like the bright green John Deere tractor. Young readers and machine enthusiasts will revel in this full-color, picture-filled, fact-packed book about the tractor that has worked America's fields for more than a hundred years. Here's the whole fascinating model-by-model story of the John Deere tractor from its beginnings in 1892 to its triumphant place on the farms...