TY - BOOK AU - Rhodes,Joel P. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A Missouri railroad pioneer: the life of Louis Houck AV - F466.H86 R48 2008eb U1 - 977.8/03092B 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Houck, Louis, KW - Southeast Missouri State University KW - History KW - Pioneers KW - Missouri KW - Biography KW - German Americans KW - Businessmen KW - Railroads KW - Historians KW - Cape Girardeau (Mo.) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-291) and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10277752 ER -