The First American Farm Tractors Developments to 1917 : a Pictorial History and Chronology of the American Efforts in Developing Mechanical Cultivation for the Period of 1833 to 1917

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Table of Contents:ForewordPrefaceContents1. Early American Steam Powered Vehicles (1790 - 1877)2. Early American Traction Engines (1858 - 1900)3. Early Imported Traction Engines (1860 - 1871)4. American Steam Plow Development (1833 - 1879)5. The Plowing Engines (1880 - 1899)6. Breaking the Prairie Sod by Steam (1900 - 1914)7. Engine Gang Plows (1900 - 1914)8. The Early Tractors (1889 - 1907)9. The Winnipeg Motor Contest (1908 - 1910)10. The Large Gasoline Tractors (1910 - 1914)11. Developing a Smaller Tractor (1910-1914)12. The 1914 Fremont Nebraska Tractor Demonstration13. The 1915 Hutchinson, Kansas Tractor Demonstration14. The 1916 Fremont Nebraska Tractor DemonstrationEpilogue