Harvesting history : McCormick's reaper, heritage branding, and historical forgery / Daniel P. Ott.

"Harvesting History explores how the highly contentious claim of Cyrus McCormick's 1831 invention of the reaper came to be incorporated into the American historical canon as a fact. Spanning the late 1870s to the 1930s, Daniel P. Ott reveals how the McCormick family and various affiliated businesses...

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Main Author: Ott, Daniel P. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
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Physical Description:xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Every Salesman, A Historian -- Chapter Two: "With Such Benefits to Mankind": Producing Invention for Producer Populists -- Chapter Three: "The Reaper is to the North...": Historical Laborers and the Manipulation of the Past -- Chapter Four: "Every Tall Building is a Monument to Bread" -- Chapter Five: "Historical Accuracy" Kellar, 1915-1932 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- . 
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