Editing Reaper (section)

== Further reading ==
* Aldrich, Lisa J. ''Cyrus McCormick and the mechanical reaper'' (2002), for middle schools; [https://archive.org/details/cyrusmccormickme0000aldr online]

* Ardrey, Robert. ''American Agricultural Implements: A Review of Invention and Development in the Agricultural Implement Industry of the United States'' (1894) [https://archive.org/details/americanagricult00ardr/page/n4/mode/1up online]; a major comprehensive overview in 236 pages.

* Bidwell, Percy and John Falconer. ''History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860'' (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925) [https://archive.org/details/historyofagricul0000perc online], pp 281–305.

* Canine, Craig. ''Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture'' (Knopf, 1995) 

* Casson, Herbert. ''Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work'' (1909) popular biography [https://archive.org/details/cyrushallmccormi0000herb/page/n8/mode/1up online].
* Casson, Herbert. ''The Romance of the Reaper'' (1908) [https://ia601600.us.archive.org/30/items/romanceofreaperb0000cass/romanceofreaperb0000cass.pdf online], popular history.

* Colman, Gould . "Innovation and Diffusion in Agriculture," ''Agricultural History'' (19680 42#3 pp.173-187.  On early reaper adopters in upstate New York in 1850,

* Cronon, William. ''Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West'' (W.W. Norton, 1991).

* David, Paul A. "The mechanization of reaping in the ante-bellum Midwest" in:	''Issues in American economic history : Selected readings'' (Heath,1980) pp. 184–191.
* David, Paul A., "The Landscape and the Machine: Technical Interrelatedness, Land Tenure and the Mechanization of the Corn Harvest in Victorian Britain," in Donald N. McCloskey, ed., ''Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840'' (Princeton University Press, 1971), pp. 145–205.

* Fishwick, Marshall. "Sheaves of Golden Grain," ''American Heritage'' (Oct 1956) 7#6 pp.80-85. Popular look at how reaper  was invented.

* Garraty, Jihn A. ''Right Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins'' (1957) forming International Harvester in 1902.

* Grady, Lee. "McCormick's Reaper at 100," ''Wisconsin Magazine of History'' (2001) 84#3 pp.10-20. Looks at the marketing of agricultural equipment 1831 to 1931.
* Hirsch, Arthur. "Efforts of the Grange in the Middle West to Control the Price of Farm Machinery, 1870–1880." ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 15 (1929): 473–96.

* Holmes, Heather. "The Diffusion of Labour-Saving Technology and Technological Innovations: English Reaping Machines in Scotland 1850 to 1910." ''Folk Life'' 53.2 (2015): 89–121.
* Hounshell, David A. ''From the American system to mass production, 1800--1932.'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) esp. "The McCormick Reaper Works and American Manufacturing Technology in the Nineteenth Century" pp 153–188. [https://archive.org/details/fromamericansyst0000houn/page/n8/mode/1up online]

* {{Cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=William T. |year=1930 |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick: Seed-Time, 1809–1856 |volume=1 |publisher=Century Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzPTAAAAMAAJ |oclc=6991369 }}; a standard scholarly history.
** {{Cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=William T. |year=1930 |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick: Harvest, 1856–1884 |volume=2 |publisher=Century Company |oclc=1651671 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wzPTAAAAMAAJ}}
* Kline, Ronald. ''Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
* Kramer, Helen. "Harvester and High Finance: Formation of the International Harvester Company." ''Business History Review'' 38 (1964): 283–301. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3112159 online]
* Lerner, Eugene. "Investment Uncertainty during the Civil War: A Note on the McCormick Brothers." ''Journal of Economic History'' (1956) 16#1: 34–40.

* Lyons, Norbert. ''The McCormick Reaper Legend: The True Story of a Great Invention'' (2008); 

* McCormick III, Cyrus Hall. ''The Century of the Reaper'' (1933), popular history [https://ia601303.us.archive.org/18/items/centuryofthereap000250mbp/centuryofthereap000250mbp.pdf online]

* McClelland, Peter. ''Sowing Modernity: America's First Agricultural Revolution'' (Cornell University Press, 1997); wide-ranging history of major farm tools in Europe and U.S.

* Marsh, Barbara. ''A corporate tragedy : the agony of International Harvester Company'' (Doubleday, 1985)  [https://archive.org/details/corporatetragedy00mars online]

* Olmstead, Alan L. "The Mechanization of Reaping and Mowing in American Agriculture, 1833–1870" ''Journal of Economic History'' (1975) 35#2 pp. 327–352 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700075082

* Olmstead, Alan and Paul W. Rhode, “Beyond the Threshold: An Analysis of the Characteristics and Behavior of Early Reaper Adopters.” ''Journal of Economic History''  55#1 (1995): 27–57.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700040560

*  Ott, Daniel Peter. “Producing a Past: McCormick Harvester and the Producer Populists in the 1890s,” ''Agricultural History'' 88#1 (2014): 87–119. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3098/ah.2014.88.1.87 online]
*  Ott, Daniel P. ''Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery'' (U of Nebraska Press, 2023).
* Ozanne, Robert. ''A Century of Labor-Management Relations at McCormick and International Harvester'' (U of Wisconsin Press, 1967).
*  Pomfret, Richard. "The Mechanization of Reaping in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: A Case Study of the Pace and Causes of the Diffusion of Embodied Technical Change." ''Journal of Economic History'' (1976) 36#2 pp.399-415.
* Queen, George S. "The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Russia, ''Russian Review'' (1964) 2#23 pp.164-181. Reaper had as major impact on Russian farming, 1858 to 1917.

* Quick, Graeme R., and Wesley F. ; Buchele. ''Grain Harvesters'' (American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1978)

* Rikoon, J. Sanford. ''Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940: A Study of Traditional Culture and Technological Change'' (Indiana University Press, 1988). [https://archive.org/details/threshinginmidwe0000riko online]

* Rogin, Leo. '' The Introduction of Farm Machinery in Its Relation to the Productivity of Labor in the Agriculture of the United States during the Nineteenth Century'' (University of California Press, 1931).
* Rosenberg, Emily S. ''Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945'' (1982)

* Shannon, Fred A. ''The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897'' (1945) pp. 125–148, 393–395 [https://archive.org/details/farmerslastfront00shan online]
* Sklar, Richard. ''The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
* Steward, John, and Arthur Pound. ''The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May Be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap'' (New York: Greenberg, 1931), popular.

* Thwaites, Reuben Gold. ''Cyrus Hall McCormick and the reaper'' (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1909) [https://archive.org/details/cyrushallmccorm00wiscgoog online]

* {{Cite book |last=Winder |first=Gordon M. |year=2016 |orig-year=2013 |title=The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910 |publisher=Routledge |oclc=940862197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anneCwAAQBAJ |isbn=9781317045151 }}
* Winder, Gordon M. "A trans-national machine on the world stage: representing McCormick's reaper through world's fairs, 1851–1902" ''Journal of Historical Geography'' (2007) 33#2 pp.352-376.

* Woods, Thomas A. ''Knights of the Plow : Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology'' (Iowa State University Press, 1991).

===Primary sources===
* Dodge & Stevenson Manufacturing Co. ''Dodge's patent reaper & mower, and self-raker''  (1870), 40-page illustrated guide how to use the machine. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924059877450/page/n11/mode/thumb online]
* Fitch, Charles H. "The Manufacture of Agricultural Implements" in  "Report on the Manufactures of Interchangeable Mechanism" in ''1880 Census: Volume 2. Report on the Manufactures of the United States'' (1881) pp. 70–85; detailed statistics of agricultural machines, by city and state for 1880 and previous censuses. [https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-02-manufactures/1880_v2-13.pdf online]

* Rhode, Robert T. ''Harvest Story Recollections of Old-Time Threshermen'' (Purdue UP, 2001), primary sources