A Missouri railroad pioneer; the life of Louis Houck by Joel P.
Rhodes describes Louis Houck as "a self-taught Cape Girardeau
railroader whose network of more than five hundred miles of
track transformed southeastern Missouri in the late nineteenth
century. Louis Houck also helped establish the college now known
as Southeast Missouri State University and wrote a noted history
of Missouri" (Provided by publisher). This noted history, A
history of Missouri from the earliest explorations and
settlements until the admission of the state into the union has
been digitized as well as another of his books, The Spanish
regime in Missouri. Other books by Houck that are available to
read at the Library Center are Memorial sketches of pioneers and
early residents of Southeast Missouri and Early Census of
Southeast Missouri. The map above is from Missouri Magazine,
April 1936, page 16. There is no article with the map but there
is this caption "This map of Missouri's old Indian trails is
considered the most authentic now