Rails across the Mississippi: A HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE - Robert W. Jackson - Books - University of Illinois Press - 9780252074097 - October 1, 2006
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A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion. It documents 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 known as the Eads Bridge.


312 pages, 44 photographs

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 1, 2006
ISBN13 9780252074097
Publishers University of Illinois Press
Pages 312
Dimensions 245 × 171 × 15 mm   ·   603 g

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