The Steiger Story From Douglass Steiger’s Daughter!
The 2023 Half Century of Progress Show was held August 24-27 in Rantoul, IL. MaJeana Hallstrom and Pamela Lien, Doug Steiger’s daughters, attended the show representing the Steiger Heritage Club. Heritage Iron Magazine/3 Point Ink, LLC, shared space for us in their tent. The days were steamy hot (100 degrees F), windy, and dusty, but the people coming through to say hello and offer their support for the new Steiger Heritage Club were a blessing to meet. Unexpectedly, Jeff LeCloux, who has the Wisconsin Oliver Nut Facebook page, asked MaJeana to tell the Steiger Tractor story. MaJeana’s storytelling was done unplanned, unrehearsed, and off-the-cuff, and even though she knows the early part of the Steiger story well, there is an inaccuracy (or two or…).
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