One of 13 children, Emmitt M.Tucker Sr. was born in 1892 in a log cabin on Jumpoff Joe Creek near Grants Pass, Ore. He spent his early childhood near Trail in a stone house built by his father. As a young boy walking to school in deep snow, Tucker began thinking about machines that might make traveling over snow easier. By the 1920s, his ideas began to take shape as he realized that he would have to come up with a completely new system if he were to build a machine that would [...]
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