Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: 1912-1915 A Wary Management Faces the Future -- Chapter 2: 1915-1916 Halting Missteps Lead to Innovation -- Chapter 3: 1916-1918 In the Beginning There was Dain -- Chapter 4: 1918 Business Progress is Not Always Technological Advance -- Chapter 5: 1918-1920 The Indomitable Henry Ford Takes the Field -- Chapter 6: 1920-1925 Mr. Silloway, This is the New Tractor You Bought -- Chapter 7: 1925-1929 Theo Brown's Mechanical Cultivator -- Chapter 8: 1929-1935 A Special Tractor for Every Crop and Every Region -- Chapter 9: 1930-1937 Depression and Renaissance -- Chapter 10: 1925-1937 A new Direction and New Color: John Deere Industrials -- Chapter 11: 1937-1938 Henry Dreyfuss, Meet Elmer McCormick -- Chapter 12: 1938-1947 Making Tracks for Sandy Soil -- Chapter 13: 1937-1938 Letters Proliferate, Lines Expand -- Chapter 14: 1937-1946 Retiring the Horse on the Small Farm -- Chapter 15: 1938-1943 Next Generation GPs Are Spelled G and H -- Chapter 16: Enter Dubuque, Welcome the M -- Chapter 17: 1943-1949 If Not Cletrac, Then Why Not Lindeman? -- Chapter 18: Not the First Diesel, Just the Most Effective One -- Chapter 19: 1949-1955 The Alphabet Ends With Multiples of Ten -- Chapter 20: 1955-1959 Better and Better -- Chapter 21: 1953-1961 Deere Brings the Future to 1960 -- Chapter 22: 1961-1982 The Quest for More Power and More Features -- Chapter 23: 1983 and On - Into the Present, Into the Future -- Index -- Sources.

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