Rails Across the Mississippi
Author | : Robert Wendell Jackson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Bridges |
ISBN | : 9780252026805 |
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"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