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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xvi
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  1. 1. Slow, Difficult, and Dangerous Travel
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. 2. A Rail Road?
  2. pp. 23-43
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  1. 3. Knoxville, 1836
  2. pp. 44-68
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  1. 4. Surveys, Finances, and Construction
  2. pp. 69-99
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  1. 5. Crisis and Contraction
  2. pp. 100-119
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  1. 6. What Happened
  2. pp. 120-151
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  1. 7. What Might Have Happened
  2. pp. 152-164
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 165-182
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 183-189
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  1. Other Works in the Series, About the Author
  2. pp. 190-192
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