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Author Hall, Margaret, 1947-

Title John Deere / M.C. Hall.

Imprint Chicago : Heinemann Library, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Westside Biography  B DEE    ---  Available
Description 32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 23 cm.
Series Lives and times
Lives and times (Des Plaines, Ill.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.
Contents Farming for food -- The early years -- Working and learning -- A blacksmith shop -- Moving on -- Settling in the West -- Plow problems -- A new kind of plow -- The company grows -- A new factory -- Father and son -- The later years -- Learning more about John Deere -- Fact file.
Indexed In: School Library Journal, September 2004
Booklist, July 2004
Horn Book, October 2004
Summary Examines the life of John Deere, co-founder of Plough Manufactory, a business opened to manufacture steel plows, and which continues to make farm machinery in the twenty-first century.
Audience 3.9
K-3 Follett Library Resources
Study Program ACCELERATED READER RL 3.9 P 0.5 WEST
Subject Deere, John, 1804-1886.
Industrialists -- Biography.
Inventors -- Biography.
Agricultural machinery industry -- History.
ISBN 1403453276

 
    
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