Clock & Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address

by Mark S Monmonier and Mark Monmonier

A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver, Colorado,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609388216
• ISBN13: 9781609388218
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"