The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road

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The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road is written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253011876 (ISBN 10) and 9780253011879 (ISBN 13).

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.