Men, mountains, and rivers: An illustrated history of the Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1754-1974 / by Leland R. Johnson
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Men, mountains, and rivers: An illustrated history of the Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1754-1974 / by Leland R. Johnson
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Johnson, Leland R., author
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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Huntington District. Huntington, West Virginia. -- History.
An illustrated history of the Huntington District U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1754-1974
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Johnson, Leland R., author
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Ohio River -- Navigation.
Ohio River Valley -- History.
Book -- Adult.
Nonfiction.
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Huntington District. Huntington, West Virginia. -- History.
Johnson, Leland R., author
Johnson, Leland R., author
Flood control -- Ohio River Valley.
356.94 JOH
Ohio River -- Navigation.
Ohio River Valley -- History.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MONTHLY CATALOG NUMBER: gp 78004449
Title on flyleaf: Men, mountains, and rivers.
"Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, 1977" -- from books.google.com
Flood control -- Ohio River Valley.
Ohio River -- Navigation.
Ohio River Valley -- History.
Book -- Adult.
Nonfiction.
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Huntington District. Huntington, West Virginia. -- History.
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Book -- Adult.
Nonfiction.
Flood control -- Ohio River Valley.
Men, mountains, and rivers: An illustrated history of the Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1754-1974 / by Leland R. Johnson
"Some wag once quipped that an engineer is a person who shoots the bull, passes the buck, and makes three copies of everything. Fortuantely for historians, engineers do make three copies of everything, and one eventually lands in the National Archives." -- from container
Engineers and pioneer navigation on the Ohio River -- Steamboats and waterways engineering -- Ohio River engineering, 1827-1857 -- Tributary waterways engineering, 1824-1860 -- Waterways in the war and after, 1861-1875 -- Ohio and Kanawha canalization -- A back door approach to flood control -- Reaching the front door to flood control -- Two world wars, and civil works undertakings -- The riverine revolution -- Flood control south of the Ohio -- Flood control north of the Ohio -- New problems in a new era -- Chronology of command -- Bibliography -- Index.
iv, 322 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimilies ; 29 cm.
"Some wag once quipped that an engineer is a person who shoots the bull, passes the buck, and makes three copies of everything. Fortuantely for historians, engineers do make three copies of everything, and one eventually lands in the National Archives." -- from container
Leland R., author Johnson
Men, mountains, and rivers: An illustrated history of the Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1754-1974 / by Leland R. Johnson
An illustrated history of the Huntington District U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1754-1974
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