Alexander's Bridge

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and John Atkinson Grimshaw. A great bridge-builder, a wife in Boston, a first love found again in London, and a cantilever span over the St Lawrence that his firm has been asked to build cheaper than it can safely be built. Cather moved to the Nebraska prairie at nine and made the homesteaders her subject; this was h...