His story has been told in another volume of this series.* * "The Age of Big Business", by Burton J.Hendrick.
Though McCormick offered reapers for sale in 1834, he seems to have sold none in that year, nor any for six years afterwards.

He sold two in 1840, seven in 1842, fifty in 1844.

The machine was not really adapted to the hills of the Valley of Virginia, and farmers hesitated to buy a contrivance which needed the attention of a skilled mechanic.

McCormick made a trip through the Middle West.

In the rolling prairies, mile after mile of rich soil without a tree or a stone, he saw his future dominion.
Hussey had moved East.