Road to the Sea: The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River Florida Today 8 Weeks Shipwrecks

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Road to the Sea: The Story of James B. Eads and the Mississippi River Florida Today 8 Weeks ShipwrecksThe Mississippi was discovered by Marquette in 1673 and spanned by James B. Eads in 1874. In his prolific career as an inventor intimately linked to the Mississippi, Eads founded diving salvage companies, designed turrets for Civil War ironclad ships, and perhaps most spectacularly built the first bridge that connected the eastern and western halves of the country, previously divided by the Great River. Compiled from the voluminous writings and