A two-hundred-mile tangle of wood, silt, live trees, and vines made the Red River virtually unnavigable—and north Texas unreachable—until Henry Shreve’s steam-powered snag boat blasted and ripped it away
Social oracles from Henry Ford to Lewis Mumford once believed that a new industrial revolution would make dirty, crowded cities a thing of the past. Why were they so wrong?
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