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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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• Full title: Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road
• Subtitle: Dreams of Linking North and South
• Author: H.Roger Grant
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780253011817
• ISBN: 0253011817
• ID: 04869980
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 676 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2014

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