Snowmobile Pioneer Cut a Fast Trail for the Sport – Wall Street Journal

By STEPHEN MILLER
Edgar Hetteen built the sport of snowmobiling from a grain-silo conveyor belt, an old Chevrolet bumper and other spare parts lying around his farm-equipment shop.
Mr. Hetteen, who died Saturday at age 90, was founder of Polaris Industries and Arctic Cat, two Minnesota companies that supply nearly all of the snowmobiles manufactured in the U.S.
But despite pioneering snowmobile design and founding enduring companies with billions of dollars in total sales, Mr. Hetteen

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