: H. Roger Grant
: Louisville, Cincinnati& Charleston Rail Road Dreams of Linking North and South
: Indiana University Press
: 9780253011879
: 1
: CHF 33.40
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: Sonstiges
: English
Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati& Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East, creating economic opportunities along its 700-mile length. But then came the Panic of 1837, and the project came to a halt. H. Roger Grant tells the incredible story of this singular example of",railroad fever", and the remarkable visionaries whose hopes for connecting North and South would require more than half a century-and one Civil War-to reach fruition.