Small Farm Today


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The Publishers Weekly


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Forthcoming Books


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The Fabulous Saga of Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor


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Botts is back! After nearly 30 years, the fabulously popular stories of Earthworm Tractor salesman Alexander Botts are back in print to delight both those who remember reading William Hazlett Upson's tales, and those who will be discovering the amusing adventures of the "natural born salesman" for the first time. Author William Hazlett Upson turned his work experience with the Holt Caterpillar Company into a second career when "The Saturday Evening Post" published his first story in 1927 in the saga of tractor salesman extraordinare Alexander Botts and Earthworm crawlers. The series was so popular that it led to 112 Botts tales and a movie, "Earthworm Tractors," that starred Joe E. Brown as Botts.







Alexander Botts


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The tractor salesman, Alexander Botts, is the personification of the American dream: He is his own boss. Although he is 'employed' by the Earthworm Tractor Company (i.e. Caterpiller, where William Hazlett Upson, Bott's creator worked for five years) it takes only one or two of the letters in Botts' immortal prose to make clear just who is in command ...




AB Bookman's Weekly


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Earthworms Through the Ages


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The Earthworm tractor salesman up to his old tricks in places as distant as the South Pacific.




The Accidental Time Machine


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NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUND Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself-or so he thinks.