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Author : Missouri. Office of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066795996
Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826266428
Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck’s name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and the nation. Rhodes presents a more complete picture of Houck than has ever been available: reviewing his life from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. He especially tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through the wilderness of wetlands known as “Swampeast Missouri”—and how these “Houck Roads” provided a boost for population, agriculture, lumbering, and commerce that transformed Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area. Rhodes discusses how Houck fits into the era of economic individualism—a time when men with little formal training shaped modern industry—and also gives voice to Houck’s critics and shows that he was not always an easy man to work with. In telling the story of his railroading enterprise, Rhodes chronicles Houck’s battle with the Jay Gould railroad empire and offers key insight into the development of America’s railway system, from the cutthroat practices of ruthless entrepreneurs to the often-comic ineptness of start-up rail lines. More than simply a biography of a business entrepreneur, the book tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College, and as a self-taught historian he wrote the first comprehensive accounts of Missouri’s territorial period. A Missouri Railroad Pioneer chronicles a multifaceted career that transformed a region. Solidly researched, this lively narrative also offers an entertaining read for anyone interested in Missouri history.
Author : Kansas. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:B3008136
Author : Missouri. Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners,Missouri. Railroad and Warehouse Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Grain trade
ISBN : UOM:35112204414744
Author : Missouri. Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners,Missouri. Railroad and Warehouse Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Grain trade
ISBN : UIUC:30112110942734
Author : Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UVA:X004508906
Author : Missouri. Office of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066795962
Author : Kansas. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:HL2HYN
Author : Iowa State Commerce Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Railroads
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092989270
Fourth report is accompanied by "Map and profiles of Iowa railroads, 1881".
Author : Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Public utilities
ISBN : HARVARD:HL2HPH
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015030016409
Author : Railroad Commission of Texas,Texas. Railroad Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UIUC:30112109559119
Author : United States. Office of Commissioner of Railroads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Railroads
ISBN : IOWA:31858045641432
Author : Missouri Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Grain trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215962775
Author : United States. Office of Commissioner of Railroads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:HL25V1