Description |
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Lives and times |
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Lives and times (Des Plaines, Ill.)
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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 |
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Booklist, July 2004 |
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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 |
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K-3 Follett Library Resources |
Study Program |
ACCELERATED READER RL 3.9 P 0.5 WEST |
Subject |
Deere, John, 1804-1886.
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Industrialists -- Biography.
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Inventors -- Biography.
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Agricultural machinery industry -- History.
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ISBN |
1403453276 |
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