Rails across the Mississippi
Subtitle: A HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 29, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780252074097
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Bridges; History of engineering & technology; c 1800 to c 1900; Transportation; Mississippi; General; Transportation / Railroads / History; Railroads - History; Engineering - Civil
First sentence: Nearly fifty years before a bridge at St. Louis became a reality, a schoolmaster named Russell from Bluffdale, Illinois, wrote an account of a remarkable "vision of the night" that had come to him "when deep sleep falleth on man."