In this Book
- The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Railroads Past and Present
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 North and South would require more than half a century—and one Civil War—to reach fruition.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- 2. A Rail Road?
- pp. 23-43
- 3. Knoxville, 1836
- pp. 44-68
- 5. Crisis and Contraction
- pp. 100-119
- 6. What Happened
- pp. 120-151
- 7. What Might Have Happened
- pp. 152-164
- Other Works in the Series, About the Author
- pp. 190-192
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253011879
Related ISBN(s)
9780253011817
MARC Record
OCLC
876513968
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-15
Language
English
Open Access
No