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You think you know tractors. Old iron. Steel wheels. A machine that promised speed, independence, and a different kind of farm. The early decades of mechanized farming were far messier, riskier, and more inventive than that, and the stories behind those machines are more varied and interesting than most people expect. This book collects true tractor stories from the years when tractors were still new. These were the years before standardized designs and safety features, when a single machine could transform a farm and sometimes redirect a family's life. Each story is grounded in documented history, including newspapers, court records, and firsthand accounts. You will meet the people who built the first gas tractors and the companies behind them, along with farmers and mechanics whose lives were shaped, for better or worse, by these new machines. The tractors are real. Fordson, Hart-Parr, Avery, Case, International Harvester, and others appear as they actually were: heavy, crude, and transformative. These stories focus on what those machines made possible, how people adapted to them, and how tractors quietly reshaped everyday farm life.

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