The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South (Railroads Past and Present)

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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JL6LMSI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (April 17, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 17, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 9678 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 323 pages