"Today John Deere is remembered - some say mistakenly - as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing debt in New England in the 1830s, set up shop in a small town on the Illinois frontier. There, in response to farmers' struggles, he designed a new plow that cut through the impervious prairie sod...