Rails across the Mississippi: A HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE

by Robert W. Jackson

Overview

An absorbing 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252074097
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	12/29/2006
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	1,148,906
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Robert W. Jackson is an urban planner and historian who has worked for the National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record, and on documentation projects in Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Texas.