27 Switzler, Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States, 22.
28 Warren, Report on Bridging the Mississippi River, 1001, states that the width of the river between the Illinois and Iowa shore was 1,650 feet at the site of the bridge.
29 Riebe, “The Government Bridge,” 73.
30 Flagler, History of the Rock Island Arsenal, 179; Slattery, Illustrated History of the Rock Island Arsenal and Arsenal Island: Part Two, 67–68; War’s Greatest Workshop, 98; Hayes, High Road to Empire, 72, 86.
31 Weingardt, Engineering Legends, 61–62; Petroski, Engineers of Dreams, 170–75, 214–15, 338–39; see Głomb, A Man Who Spanned Two Eras.
32 Pfeiffer, “Bridging the Mississippi,” 6.
33 Tweet, History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, 34.
34 14 Stat. 244–46; Warren, Report on Bridging the Mississippi River between Saint Paul, Minn., and St. Louis, Mo., 197.
35 14 Stat. 244–46.
36 PAL:LDC 3:383.
37 Tweet, History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, 38.
38 Ibid.
39 Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, 595; Switzler, Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States, 25.
40 Primm, Lion of the Valley, 279–82.
41 Ibid., 282.
42 Jackson, Great American Bridges and Dams, 194.
43 Primm, Lion of the Valley, 291–92.
44 Tweet, History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, 38.
45 Costello, Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, vol. 2.
46 Tweet, History of Transportation on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, 13.
47 Ibid.
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