Simon Winchester

The Men Who United the States: The Amazing Stories of the Explorers, Inventors and Mavericks Who Made America

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       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Praise

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       List of Maps and Illustrations

       Author’s Note

       Preface: The Pure Physics of Union

       PART I: WHEN AMERICA’S STORY WAS DOMINATED BY WOOD, 1785–1805

       PART II: WHEN AMERICA’S STORY WENT BENEATH THE EARTH, 1809–1901

       The West, Revealed

       The Singular First Adventure of Kapurats

       The Men Who Gave Us Yellowstone

       Diamonds, Sex, and Race

       PART III: WHEN THE AMERICAN STORY TRAVELED BY WATER, 1803–1900

       Journeys to the Fall Line

       The Streams beyond the Hills

       The Pivot and the Feather

       The First Big Dig

       The Wedded Waters of New York

       The Linkman Cometh

       That Ol’ Man River

       PART IV: WHEN THE AMERICAN STORY WAS FANNED BY FIRE, 1811–1956

       May the Roads Rise Up

       Rain, Steam, and Speed

       The Annihilation of the In-Between

       The Immortal Legacy of Crazy Judah

       Colonel Eisenhower’s Epiphanic Expedition

       The Colossus of Roads

       And Then We Looked Up

       The Twelve-Week Crossing

       PART V: WHEN THE AMERICAN STORY WAS TOLD THROUGH METAL, 1835–TOMORROW

       To Go, but Not to Move

       The Man Who Tamed the Lightning

       The Signal Power of Human Speech

       With Power for One and All

       Lighting the Corn, Powering the Prairie

       The Talk of the Nation

       Making Money from Air

       Television: The Irresistible Force

      

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