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Rails Across the Mississippi

Rails Across the Mississippi
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0252026802
ISBN-13 : 9780252026805
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Book Synopsis Rails Across the Mississippi by : Robert Wendell Jackson

Download or read book Rails Across the Mississippi written by Robert Wendell Jackson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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