Breaking the Prairie (1910)
F.A. Pazandak, photographerSeen here is a Minneapolis double tandem, compound steamer (45 horse power) breaking sod northwest of Fullerton, North Dakota, in 1910.
The steamer, owned by Jack Anderson, is pulling a John Deere plow with fourteen 14-inch breakers. This well-known image was used on the dust jacket of Hiram Drache's, "Days of the Bonanza," published by the Institute of Regional Studies in 1964.
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