Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rhis20 The Historian ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rhis20 The less imperial path: the Mississippi Valley, US expansionism, and engineer James B. Eads’ failure to build a ship railway Nathanael Grimes & J. Justin Castro To cite this article: Nathanael Grimes & J. Justin Castro (2020): The less imperial path: the Mississippi Valley, US expansionism, and engineer James B. Eads’ failure to build a ship railway, The Historian, DOI: 10.1080/00182370.2020.1747842 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00182370.2020.1747842 Published online: 08 Jun 2020. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data