Steiger Tractors & Snoopy and the Spy Bundle

The brand-new Steiger Tractors paired with the fun read, Snoopy & the Spy! 

STEIGER TRACTORS

This massive book offers fresh insight and terrific detail on how the Steiger tractor emerged from a barn in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota and became a global brand! With more than 150,000 words from the engineers, founder, and others who built this brand, you'll learn everything about how four-wheel-drive tractors came to be--and how a relatively small company from Fargo, North Dakota grew to beat the major manufacturers and lead the industry! 

FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE EVOLUTION

Steiger was cutting edge in the 1970s--and the story of their creation is the story of the evolution of modern 4WD high-horsepower tractors! Starting with the development of barn-built tractors by the Steiger family, the book traces the evolution and design of some of the most powerful and capable tractors of the twentieth century. With fresh detail on the Steigers as well as the Steiger-built IH tractors, the book offers prototype drawings of several models--including the complete story of the Magnum 2+2-- as well as inside stories and backroom drama that is a must for any enthusiast for farm history or tractors. 

SNOOPY AND THE SPY

Get Insight on the Roots of the Battle Between Case IH vs John Deere 

On the farm fields of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the stakes had never been higher. The era marked one of the hardest economic environments of the twentieth century, and two of the world’s toughest competitors were locked in a high-horsepower arms race to create the world’s best piece of agricultural equipment. 

For John Deere, winning meant maintaining global dominance. For International Harvester, winning would mean survival. For all the other ag equipment makers—well, it was mostly bad news.

In a big money game of poker, the two top makers bet on various new technologies and raced to build the best one first. The new machines were designed and built in secret spaces, then tested in dark pastures and remote corners of the world. They were transported carefully covered under tarps and rail cars . . . all in effort to keep them from the prying eyes and nimble cameras of the competition.

In this rollicking non-fiction trip back in time, the salesman, engineers, and executives who played the game offer firsthand accounts of how and why this techno-turf war was fought. As the game escalated, one salesman took matters into his own hands. In the name of company loyalty, he crossed a line he shouldn’t have and found himself deep in enemy territory.