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1 online resource (209 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Railroads Past and Present
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Railroads past and present.
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| Contents |
Cover; title; copyright; contents; preface; acknowledgments; 1 slow, difficult, and dangerous travel; 2 a rail road?; 3 knoxville, 1836; 4 surveys, finances, and construction; 5 crisis and contraction; 6 what happend; 7 what might have happened; notes; index; a; b; c; d; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail-Road Company.
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Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail-Road Company. |
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Railroads -- South Carolina -- History.
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Railroads. |
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South Carolina. |
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History. |
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Transportation -- South Carolina -- History.
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Transportation. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Grant, H. Roger. Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road : Dreams of Linking North and South. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2014 9780253011817 |
| ISBN |
9780253011879 (electronic book) |
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0253011876 (electronic book) |
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9780253011817 |
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0253011817 |
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