A Missouri Railroad Pioneer
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A Missouri Railroad Pioneer
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Author : Joel P. Rhodes
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2017-08-15
A Missouri Railroad Pioneer written by Joel P. Rhodes and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Story Of A Western Pioneer
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Author : John Leeds Kerr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Story Of A Western Pioneer written by John Leeds Kerr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with categories.
The Story Of A Western Pioneer
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Author : John Leeds Kerr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Story Of A Western Pioneer written by John Leeds Kerr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Missouri Pacific Railroad Company categories.
The Lost History Of The New Madrid Earthquakes
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Author : Conevery Bolton Valencius
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-25
The Lost History Of The New Madrid Earthquakes written by Conevery Bolton Valencius and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with History categories.
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
Grenville M Dodge Soldier Politician Railroad Pioneer
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Author : Stanley P. Hirshson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1967
Grenville M Dodge Soldier Politician Railroad Pioneer written by Stanley P. Hirshson and has been published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with History categories.
Matthews
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Author : Edward Calvin Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Matthews written by Edward Calvin Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the 2005 Fred Kniffen Book Award for best-authored book in the field of North American material culture. Awarded the 2006 Governor's Book Award from the Missouri Humanities' Council.
Crossroads Of A Continent
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Author : Peter A. Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Crossroads Of A Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Transportation categories.
Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Pioneer Railroad The Story Of The Chicago And North Western System
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Author : Robert Joseph Casey
language : en
Publisher: Robert Joseph Casey
Release Date : 1948
Pioneer Railroad The Story Of The Chicago And North Western System written by Robert Joseph Casey and has been published by Robert Joseph Casey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Transportation categories.
Pioneer railroad the story of the Chicago and North Western System.
The Railroads Of Southeast Volume 3
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Author : RalphK. Hughes III
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-06-16
The Railroads Of Southeast Volume 3 written by RalphK. Hughes III and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-16 with categories.
From Louis Houck's 500-mile railroad empire out of Cape Girardeau to the founding of Amtrack, join Ralph Hughes for the next leg of the journey and discover how Southeast Missouri-as well as the rest of the U.S.-went from the Golden Age of Transportation to what we know today.THE "FATHER OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI" was a pioneer, but he also cut a lot of corners. The history of railroads in America is filled with triumphs and tragedies, but few are as convoluted as the 500-mile empire that lawyer, journalist, and historian Louis Houck attempted to build out of Cape Girardeau. From draining the swamps of the Missouri Bootheel to the construction shortcuts that made his railroads unsafe and unreliable none can deny Houck left an indelible impression on the region.In Volume 1 of this series on the railroads of Southeast Missouri, Ralph Hughes took you from the first laid rails in St. Louis to the far reaches of the western United States. Volume 2 zeroed in on the railway companies that connected one town to another. Now, in Volume 3, Hughes takes us to the modern age, starting with the contributions and shortcomings of Louis Houck's railroad systems to the founding of Amtrak and the consolidation of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad.Hughes puts his love of trains and old stories to good use in this new volume detailing the establishment of several Missouri railroads, including the Cape Girardeau Northern Railway; Saline Valley Railroad; Chester, Perryville, Ste. Genevieve and Farmington Railroad; Missouri and Southeastern Railway; and many more. Each include their own triumphs and tragedies.Read the stories, view the 50+ historic images, and discover how the railroads of Southeast Missouri-as well as the rest of the U.S.-went from the Golden Age of Transportation to what we know today. Enjoy the ride!
Four Catholic Pioneers In Missouri Lamarque Kenrick Fox And Hogan
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Author : Mark G. Boyer
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-12-21
Four Catholic Pioneers In Missouri Lamarque Kenrick Fox And Hogan written by Mark G. Boyer and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-21 with Religion categories.
This is a book about four Roman Catholic pioneers--explorers and developers--whose lives crossed each other's paths in Old Mines, Missouri, in the middle of the 1800s. Two of them were priests, and one of them was a bishop, then an archbishop. One was a laywoman, who was very generous with her riches. Three of them were not only of Irish descent but came from Ireland. The laywoman was French, and she came from Ste. Genevieve. The Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1840s brought all of them together in the oldest village in the state of Missouri: Old Mines. The potato famine brought many Irish to Missouri in the nineteenth century to farm, to build railroads, and to construct churches for worship. This is the story of pioneers Marie-Louise (Bolduc) Lamarque, Peter Richard Kenrick, James Fox, and John Joseph Hogan. Their lives crossed each other's paths in Old Mines, Missouri, a lead-mining village about sixty miles south of St. Louis (before St. Louis existed) and about forty miles east of Ste. Genevieve (before Ste. Genevieve existed).