LETTING OFF STEAM

By Richard Backus
Published on May 1, 2004

How many people know that America’s first road race was a
contest between two steam tractions engines? Before steam and
tractor historian Jack Alexander alerted me to the fact, I
certainly didn’t. In the course of researching his recently
released book, The First American Farm Tractors, Developments
to 1917,
Jack stumbled upon mention of the race and passed

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