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Title: RAILS ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI
A HISTORY OF THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE
By: Robert W. Jackson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0252074092
ISBN 13: 9780252074097
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Pub. date: 1 October, 2006
Pages: 312
Description: A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion. It documents the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is known as the Eads Bridge.
Synopsis: The story of the visionary drive that created an engineering marvel
Illustrations: 44 photographs
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Returns: Returnable
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