MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01419cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2007052626
003 DLC
005 20080506140440.0
008 080107s2008 mouab b s001 0beng
010 $a 2007052626
020 $a9780826217981 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us-mo
050 00 $aF466.H86$bR48 2008
082 00 $a977.8/03092$aB$222
100 1 $aRhodes, Joel P.,$d1967-
245 12 $aA Missouri railroad pioneer :$bthe life of Louis Houck /$cJoel P. Rhodes.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$cc2008.
300 $ax, 298 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index.
520 $a"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.
600 10 $aHouck, Louis,$d1840-1925.
650 0 $aPioneers$zMissouri$vBiography.
650 0 $aGerman Americans$zMissouri$vBiography.
650 0 $aBusinessmen$zMissouri$vBiography.
650 0 $aRailroads$zMissouri$xHistory.
610 20 $aSoutheast Missouri State University$xHistory.
650 0 $aHistorians$zMissouri$vBiography.
651 0 $aCape Girardeau (Mo.)$vBiography.