Rails across the Mississippi
A HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE
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Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiverailsacrossmissi0000jack
- ISBN-100252026802
- ISBN-139780252026805
- Goodreads2014008
- Library of Congress Control Number2001000491
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number45845432
- Better World Books9780252026805
- Open LibraryOL9416271M
Classifications
- LCCTG25.M6J33 2001
- LCCTG25.M6 J33 2001
Description
"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.
First Sentence
Nearly fifty years before a bridge at St. Louis became a reality, a schoolmaster named Russell from Bluffdale, Illinois, wrote an account of a remarkable "vision of the night" that had come to him "when deep sleep falleth on man."
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