• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: Rails across the Mississippi : a history of the St. Louis bridge
  • Beteiligte: Jackson, Robert W. [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Urbana, Ill. [u.a.]: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2001
  • Umfang: IX, 265 S; Ill
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 0252026802
  • RVK-Notation: ZI 6605 : Geschichte des Brückenbaus
  • Schlagwörter: Eads Bridge > Geschichte
    Eads Bridge > Geschichte
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references (S. [245] - 249) and index
  • Beschreibung: Machine generated contents note: PREFACE vii ONE A Creature of Hope i --TWO Destined to Become 13 --THREE Other People's Money 29 --FOUR Mongrel Structures 37 --FIVE Fighting for It Still 50 --SIX The Center of the World 6i --SEVEN The Great Bugbear 71 --EIGHT The Grecian Bend 82 --NINE Golden Eggs 93 --TEN Untried Methods 104 --ELEVEN Proper Facilities II6 --TWELVE A Little Mixture of Conciliation I27 --THIRTEEN The Elements of Commercial Supremacy 136 --FOURTEEN The Texas Trade I48 --FIFTEEN Honor at the Stake 157 --SIXTEEN Capital and Influence I70 --SEVENTEEN The Consummation So Devoutly Wished For 80 --IGHTEEN Stately Pomp and Ceremony I94 --NINETEEN The Elements of a Great City 207 --Epilogue 221 NOTES 225 --BIBLIOGRAPHY 245 --INDEX 251

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