A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck
According to his biographer Joel P. Rhodes, Houck was a public-spirited citizen who, moved by enlightened selfinterest, brought economic development to Missouri's southeastern region by constructing three rail networks; who promoted higher education in the area by securing for Cape Girardeau a...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of Southern History 2010, Vol.76 (1), p.177-178 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | According to his biographer Joel P. Rhodes, Houck was a public-spirited citizen who, moved by enlightened selfinterest, brought economic development to Missouri's southeastern region by constructing three rail networks; who promoted higher education in the area by securing for Cape Girardeau a state normal school, today's Southeast Missouri State University; and who memorialized colonial Missouri as its amateur historian. [...] his family lived in considerable luxury, though Houck was deeply in debt. |
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| ISSN: | 0022-4642 2325-6893 |