Power and the Plow (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Power and the Plow Clouds of smoke and hissing steam, a broad prairie stretching for miles without a break, save for the distant mirage, here and there a tiny prairie fire held in leash by bands of blackened earth, dust and heat, throngs of eager spectators, the song of vibrant steel and the cracking roots of age-old sod - imagine all this, add to it the sight of a score of monster engines pulling leviathan plows, and you have a faint picture of the Winnipeg plowing contest. Shining prows of steel, cleaving the waves of a sea of prairie grass, long furrows lost in a haze, lines of fluttering flags to guide the engineer on a straight course, huge twenty-ton engines mere dots on the landscape, and you have the impression of distance. Refreshment tents, excursion trains, busy autos running errands for the slow-moving tractors, or whisking the manufacturer's crew back and forth, and you feel the spirit of a modern festival. Then, in the twilight, mild-eyed cattle meandering slowly over the upturned field, wondering, Rip Van Winkle-like, at the transformation, and you sense a tragedy, for the pasture of the ox and buffalo from time immemorial is lost forever to advancing civilization. In the night, when the camps have vanished, one might even fancy Indian spirits floating miserably over the desolate waste of a one-time happy hunting ground. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.