Pyramids, wheat pictured on, [206]
R
Railway from Chicago to Galena, [76]
Railways in 1831, [49];
extending westward, [67];
none reaching Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, [70];
Chicago becomes a centre for, [73];
preceded by Reaper in West, [192];
distribution of food-stuffs by, [210], [211];
building of trans-continental, [211];
across Siberia, [212];
in western Canada, Argentina, and India, [212];
as wheat-conveyors, [212];
converging at Chicago, [214];
in Prairie States, [230]
Ready-to-eat foods, [237]
Reaper, McCormick, [13], [17], [28]–[48], [52]–[67], [73]–[76], [78]–[86], [88], [89], [92], [95]–[98], [100], [103]–[108], [110]–[113], [115], [117], [119]–[124], [126]–[135], [137], [138], [147], [166], [169], [170], [188]–[193], [195], [196], [200]–[203], [208], [210], [212], [214], [226], [227], [230], [243]–[246]
Reapers of all makes, total annual production of, [209]
Reciprocating blade, origin of, [32]
Red River Valley, [194], [231], [232]
Reed, Col. Samuel, [40]