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Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge

By John K. Brown
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By John K. Brown
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The fascinating history of the St. Louis Bridge, the first steel structure in the world.

Winner of the 2025 Captain Donald T. Wright Award for Maritime Journalism and Literature by the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library

In Spanning the Gilded Age, John K. Brown tells the daring, improbable story of the construction of the St. Louis Bridge, known popularly as the Eads Bridge. Completed in 1874, it was the first structure of any kind—anywhere in the world—built of steel. This hist...

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