A Missouri railroad pioneer [electronic resource] : the life of Louis Houck / Joel P. Rhodes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.Description: x, 298 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 977.8/03092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • F466.H86 R48 2008eb
Online resources: Summary: "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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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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