In 1837 he developed the steel plow & tested it on Lewis Crandall's farm near Grand Detour, Illinois
CONTENTS  I A BLACKSMITH 7 m II 1837 ' RUMBLES 
OF ... "As for Grand Detour itself, sir," he went on, "town lots are already selling 
here for ... preemption rights by Lewis Crandall, where he meant to make his first 
test.