MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show June 7, 2019
And so in the mid 19th century, as new american railroads were spreading out from sea to shining sea, all over the United States, st. Louis found itself kind of geographically cut off from the future of commerce and the future of transit. That would be defined by all those new railroad tracks. And so city of st. Louis hired somebody to fix that. His name was James Buchanan eads. Ead skrk eads. He was a selftaught engineer. He never built a bridge before in his life, but in 1867, st. Louis hired him, anyway, and he built the city a lifeline. What eads built st. Louis was the first steel trust b...