Article: Mr. Eads Spans the Mississippi - Eads Bridge At St. Louis "The Odds Were all Against Him. His Only Credential Seemed to be Self-Confidence and Who Had Ever Heard of a Steel Bridge?"

by Joseph Gies

Print Magazine

Published January 1, 1969

About the author

Joseph Gies and his wife Frances were historians and writers. They both collaborated on a number of books about the Middle Ages, and each also wrote individual works. Joseph Gies graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939.