Front cover image for Terre Haute : Queen City of the Wabash

Terre Haute : Queen City of the Wabash

Print Book, English, ©2005
Arcadia, Charleston, SC, ©2005
Biographies
160 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
9780738524061, 0738524069
62510469
A child of the river
Fort Harrison in the Indiana Territory
Transforming a village into a town
The town becomes a city
The industrial boom following the Civil War
Striving to become the Pittsburgh of the West
Politics and prohibition
Civic pride, labor problems, and the Depression
World War II, McMillan, and Tucker
The landscape alters