INDEX 



"Prairie Ground," American 

 display at London Exhibi- 

 tion of 1851, 126 



Prairies, need of Reapers to 

 harvest on the, 65, 73; uncul- 

 tivated before advent of 

 Reaper, 67 



Prairie States, ten, 230 



Presbyterian Church, 158, 185, 

 186 



Princeton University, 172 



Protestant Reformation, 156, 

 185 



Proudhon, 1, 51 



Publicity, Cyrus H. McCor- 

 mick believed in policy of, 81 



Puddling-furnace, 17 



Pyramids, wheat pictured on, 

 206 



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Railway from Chicago to Ga- 

 lena, 76 



Railways in 1831, 49; extend- 

 ing westward, 67; none 

 reaching Chicago when Cy- 

 rus H. McCormick came, 

 70; Chicago becomes a 

 centre for, 73; preceded by 

 Reaper in West, 192; dis- 

 tribution of food-stuffs by, 

 210, 211; building of trans- 

 continental, 211; across Si- 

 beria, 212; in western 

 Canada, Argentina, ancf In- 

 dia, 212; as wheat-convey- 

 ors, 212; converging at 



Chicago, 214; in Prairie 

 States, 230 



Ready-to-eat foods, 237 



Reaper, McCormick, 13, 17, 

 28-48, 52-67, 73-76, 78-86, 

 88, 89, 92, 95-98, 100, 103- 

 108, 110-113, 115, 117, 119- 

 124, 126-135, 137, 138, 147, 

 166, 169, 170, 188-193, 195, 

 196, 200-203, 208, 210, 212, 

 214, 226, 227, 230, 243-246 



Reapers of all makes, total 

 annual production of, 209 



Reciprocating blade, origin of, 

 32 



Red River Valley, 194, 231, 

 232 



Reed, Col. Samuel, 40 



Reel, origin of, 33, 46 



Republican party, 100 



Revolutionary War, 3, 20 



Rice, 205, 212, 242 



Riots in 1837, 52 



"River and Harbor Conven- 

 tion," Chicago, 71, 72 



Rochester, N. Y., 234 



Rockbridge County, Virginia, 

 McCormick farm in, 2 



Rotterdam, wheat stored in, 

 217 



Roumania, 242 



Roumanian cities use concrete 

 grain elevators, 216 



Rubber manufacture, inventor 

 of, 53 



Ruff, John, 38, 40 



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