Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Reaper is a biographical work written by Reuben Gold Thwaites in 1909. The book tells the story of Cyrus Hall McCormick, an American inventor and businessman who revolutionized agriculture with his invention of the mechanical reaper. Thwaites begins by describing McCormick's early life in rural Virginia, where he grew up on a farm and developed an interest in machinery. He then goes on to detail McCormick's struggles to...