Author: Cape Girardeau Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Profile of Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Author: Cape Girardeau Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Industrial Profile
Author: Cape Girardeau Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Missouri's Cape Girardeau Area
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
2002 Industrial Profile
Author: Cape Girardeau Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Biography of Historic Cape Girardeau County
Author: Bicentennial Commission of Cape Girardeau, MissouriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cape Girardeau Then and Now
Author: Tom NeumeyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781890551179
Category : Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, History and Biographies
Author: Mountain PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Girardeau County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Historic Cape Girardeau
Author: Tom NeumeyerPublisher: Historical Pub Network
ISBN: 9781893619395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Cape Girardeau
Author: Felix Eugene SniderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911208023
Category : Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A Missouri Railroad Pioneer
Author: Joel P. RhodesPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826266428
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.