| The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South Contributor(s): Grant, H. Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253011817 ISBN-13: 9780253011817 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - History |
| Dewey: 625.100 |
| Series: Railroads Past and Present |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 7.3" W x 10.22" (1.38 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Louisville, Kentucky - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |