Introducing Alexander Botts, salesman of Earthworm Tractors, who is, according to his own modest estimate, a natural born salesman, an artist, and one of the best natural talkers in the organization. When sent to sell a tractor to an English lord, he reveals himself as a man of culture and innate refinement who realizes that a cutaway and all the etceteras are necessities when dealing with the titled nobility. Although in general he tries to cultivate a polite and ingratiating manner, Botts on a collecting job is a hard-boiled bozo, in a very softhearted way. Whether it means diving into a well for a drowned cat, promoting a beauty contest, or riding into a swamp, Alexander Botts always makes his sale, and even if you're not interested in a tractor, you're sure to be interested in and delighted by Botts. Share this book with someone in uniform.

That man's here again! Who? Why, Alexander Botts, roving sales manager of the earthworm Tractor Company, Earthworm city, Illinois. War cannot wither nor the armed forces stale the infinite variety of his plans to make America Earthworm-conscious. He is himself convinced of the merits of his product and that, as any school child can tell you, leaves only some hundred and thirty million others to convert. There may be a few people who have never run into, or been run into by, Alexander Botts, and to these unfortunates we have nothing to say: their turn will come. the rest of us need only be told that the outbreak of war finds Botts serene and prepared, as always, for any emergency and while Mr. Donald Nelson might question some of his methods, even he would be satisfied with the results obtained.

A collection of fifteen stories about Alexander Botts, the famous Earthworm Tractor Company salesman. The stories were originally published in the Saturday Evening Post. See the following list of story titles and original publication dates: Animal Business (Jun. 17, 1933) The Big Tree ( Aug. 18, 1934) The Depression Is Over (Oct. 13, 1934) "—Cordially Yours, Alexander Botts" (Dec. 31, 1938) The Beaver Dam (Mar. 18, 1939) Who's Running This Sales Department, Anyway? (Apr. 29, 1939) Tractor Man's Holiday (Aug. 12, 1939) Cross-Country Boat Ride (Sep. 7, 1940) Alexander Botts, Doctor of Science (Feb. 8, 1941) They Laughed at Edison Too (Jul. 19, 1941) In Again, out Again, Botts Again (Jul. 17, 1943) Alexander Botts Obeys Orders (Oct. 30, 1943) Alexander Botts Will Fix Everything (Apr. 8, 1944) "Keep Moving, Captain Botts!" (Jun. 24, 1944) Once a Salesman, Always a Salesman (1944)

The adventures of Mr. Alexander Botts in his work as a salesman for the Earthworm Tractor Company.

Contains the following stories about Alxander Botts, Earthworm Tractor Sales Manager: The Expensive Mr. Botts Botts Gets a New Job Botts Cleans Out the Parts Department Alexander Botts Goes Underground Alexander Botts vs. the Income Tax Botts and the Jet-Propelled Tractor Botts and the Brink of Disaster Botts Makes Magic Frank and Honest Botts Bogs Down Botts Discovers Uranium Tractor Hoarder

The best and funniest of thirty years of Saturday Evening Post stories about the world's famous tractor salesman—Alexander "The Great" Botts. Includes the following stories, with original publication dates: I'm a Natural Born Salesman (Apr. 16, 1927) The Big Tree (Aug. 18, 1934) Situation Haywire (1944) Alexander Botts and the Mobius Strip (Dec. 22, 1945) Botts Gets a New Job (Oct 18, 1947) Alexander Botts vs. the Income Tax (May 8, 1948) The Crime of Alexander Botts (Aug. 4, 1951) Botts Runs for His Life (Apr. 19, 1952) Botts and the Impossible Mountain (Dec. 5, 1953) Botts' Perfect Alibi (Sep. 15, 1956) Botts Turns Traitor (Nov. 9, 1957) Botts and the Day the Dam Broke (Aug. 16, 1958) Botts and the Pickett line (Mar. 5, 1960)

Book by William Hazlett Upson

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.