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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Greatest Inventor In the West Author: Bill Gulick Narrator: Gene Engene Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 08-23-12 Publisher: Books in Motion Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: History, American Publisher's Summary: Just as the big trees of the Pacific Northwest inspired the legend of Paul Bunyan, so did the Palouse Hills of southeastern Washington--where fantastic fields of wheat were raised on incredibly steep slopes--spawn tall tales about farmers, steamboat men, and the ingenious methods they used to get their grain to market. Though thirty-three-mule hitches and headers (whose downhill wheels were three times larger than the uphill ones) solved the harvesting problems, transporting the sacked grain two thousand vertical feet down to the steamboat landings took sheer genius. The Greatest Inventor in the West tells the story of one Joseph Malone, who possessed