The Fabulous Saga of Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor

The Fabulous Saga of Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor
Author: William Hazlett Upson
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Botts, Alexander (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780896585300

Botts is back! After nearly 30 years, the fabulously popular stories of Earthworm Tractor salesman Alexander Botts are back in print to delight both those who remember reading William Hazlett Upson's tales, and those who will be discovering the amusing adventures of the "natural born salesman" for the first time. Author William Hazlett Upson turned his work experience with the Holt Caterpillar Company into a second career when "The Saturday Evening Post" published his first story in 1927 in the saga of tractor salesman extraordinare Alexander Botts and Earthworm crawlers. The series was so popular that it led to 112 Botts tales and a movie, "Earthworm Tractors," that starred Joe E. Brown as Botts.

Botts Begins

Botts Begins
Author: William Hazlett Upson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781642340259

Welcome to the world of Alexander Botts and Earthworm Tractors, a series of humorous short stories about a bumbling salesman's trial and tribulations selling crawler tractors. His unusual sales tactics send the machines through impervious swamps, murky lakes, and high snowbanks. His schemes consistently backfire but, in the end, he never fails to close the deal! In this book, Botts talks his way into a job selling Earthworm Tractors for The Farmers' Friend Tractor Company. Alexander Botts was created in 1927 by author William Hazlett Upson, and these stories are based on Upson's brief career as a mechanic for the Caterpillar Tractor Company. For almost half a century, Botts was beloved by Saturday Evening Post readers in more than 100 short stories. This series of books is the only publication to present the collection in its entirety, and includes five Botts stories that never appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Alexander Botts and his Earthworm Tractor will charm readers young and old and entertain with innocent mayhem, timeless humor, and twists of fate.

The Cell-U-Botts: In the Beginning

The Cell-U-Botts: In the Beginning
Author: Michael Zernhel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1499007892

My thought is if you can bring a sponge to life, why not a cell phone. Therefore, I created the Cell-U-Botts. This story is about a young couple in love, Mickey Wallace and Tara Tiffany. Mickey and Tara are talking on their cell phones, during a bad thunderstorm. Mickey was telling Tara how he had to work overtime at the cell phone shop and that he needed to cancel there date tonight. Crack, boom, bang, lighting strikes and they are on another planet, called Cell-u-Tron. On this planet, they meet the Cell-u Botts. It is a completely new world. Mickey and Tara have to adapt to a new life and try to find food to survive and try to live a normal life. There are morals and values in this tale. This is a great story for children 2 to 12, and even for you bigger kids. Please enjoy! Check out my new website uid.me/michaelr._zernhel. More to come.

Alexander Botts

Alexander Botts
Author: William Hazlett Upson
Publisher: Queens House, Incorporated
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1977
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The tractor salesman, Alexander Botts, is the personification of the American dream: He is his own boss. Although he is 'employed' by the Earthworm Tractor Company (i.e. Caterpiller, where William Hazlett Upson, Bott's creator worked for five years) it takes only one or two of the letters in Botts' immortal prose to make clear just who is in command ...

Botts Abroad

Botts Abroad
Author: William Hazlett Upson
Publisher: Alexander Botts and the Earthw
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2021-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781642340396

The world's best tractor salesman is back in this second installment of Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor. In this series of humorous short stories, Botts and his new bride travel to Europe on a special assignment to bring the solid, American-made machines to the Old World! Nicknamed "Gadget" because of her usefulness, Mrs. Botts proves to be as resourceful as her husband in cleverly closing deals in ancient cities previously thought to have no market for crawler tractors. Alexander Botts was created in 1927 by author William Hazlett Upson, and the stories are based on Upson's work as a factory assembler and sales demonstrator for the Caterpillar Tractor Company. For almost half a century, Botts was beloved by Saturday Evening Post readers in more than 100 short stories. This book includes the original illustrations that appeared with the stories in The Saturday Evening Post, and is part of a series that will be the first to present the entire collection. Alexander Botts and his Earthworm Tractor will charm readers young and old and entertain with innocent mayhem, timeless humor, and twists of fate.

Beginning SQL

Beginning SQL
Author: Paul Wilton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2005-03-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0764596322

Taking readers through the basics of the language, right up to some more advanced topics, this book is a practical, hands-on resource and aims to keep the reader involved at all times Focuses on the SQL standard and is loaded with detailed examples and code; each chapter includes practice exercises that readers can challenge themselves with before looking at the sample solutions in the appendix Paul Wilton is a successful Wrox "Beginning" book author and is an ideal author to write for those who want a firm grasp of standard SQL before learning the details specific to a particular database product SQL is an international standard for manipulating data in databases and is used by database programmers in all major database systems: Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, MySQL, and many others

The Black Cat

The Black Cat
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1917
Genre: Short stories, American
ISBN:

Wilderness Blues

Wilderness Blues
Author: Tom Botts
Publisher: Goodcatch Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2007-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781934635001