A Missouri railroad pioneer

Rhodes, Joel P., 1967-

A Missouri railroad pioneer the life of Louis Houck / [electronic resource] : Joel P. Rhodes. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008. - x, 298 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index.

"Examines the life of a self-taught Cape Girardeau railroader whose network of more than five hundred miles of track transformed southeastern Missouri in the late nineteenth century. Louis Houck also helped establish the college now known as Southeast Missouri State University and wrote a noted history of Missouri"--Provided by publisher.


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Houck, Louis, 1840-1925.


Southeast Missouri State University--History.


Pioneers--Missouri--Biography.
German Americans--Missouri--Biography.
Businessmen--Missouri--Biography.
Railroads--History.--Missouri
Historians--Missouri--Biography.


Cape Girardeau (Mo.)--Biography.


Electronic books.

F466.H86 / R48 2008eb

977.8/03092 B