A Missouri railroad pioneer
Subtitle: the life of Louis Houck
By: Joel P. Rhodes.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780826217981
Subjects: Houck, Louis, -- 1840-1925; Southeast Missouri State University -- History; Pioneers -- Missouri -- Biography; German Americans -- Missouri -- Biography; Businessmen -- Missouri -- Biography; Railroads -- Missouri -- History; Historians -- Missouri -- Biography; Cape Girardeau (Mo.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Examines the life of a self-taught Cape Girardeau railroader whose network of more than five hundred miles of track transformed southeastern Missouri in the late nineteenth century. Louis Houck also helped establish the college now known as Southeast Missouri State University and wrote a noted history of Missouri"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.