The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South
H. Roger Grant$34.00
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Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East, creating economic opportunities along its 700-mile length. But then came the Panic of 1837, and the project came to a halt. H. Roger Grant tells the incredible story of this singular example of "railroad fever" and the remarkable visionaries whose hopes for connecting North and South would require more than half a century--and one Civil War--to reach fruition.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/17/2014
ISBN: 9780253011817
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 10.22h x 7.30w x 0.84d