Author of American History
On July 24, 1945, Charles Toney and his then girlfriend, Ann Palmer, walked to the elegantly appointed Capitol Theatre, a 2,500-seat art deco style movie theater on West 3rd Street in downtown Davenport, Iowa. The movie was The Valley of Decision, based on the book …
Read MoreFor two or three months each year, John Froelich left the grain elevator he owned and operated in Froelich, Iowa, a small town in northeast Iowa named for his father. Like most years, South Dakota was his destination. With him travelled a group that left …
Read MoreThe tractor transformed farming. John Deere, Henry Ford, and International Harvester offer three unique historical case studies from the fascinating era that introduced power farming.
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