London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing
Travis Elborough
London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing
Travis Elborough
A brilliantly entertaining look at just what happened when London Bridge was sold and shipped to America.
In 1968 the world’s largest antique went to America.
But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles?
And why did Robert P. McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it?
Why did he ship it to a waterless patch of the Arizonan desert?
Did he even get the right bridge?
To answer these questions, it’s necessary to meet a peculiar cast.
Fleet Street shysters
Revolutionary Radicals
Frock-coated industrialists
Disneyland designers
Thames dockers
Guinness Book of Records officials
The odd Lord Mayor
Bridge-building priests
Gun-toting U.S. sheriffs
An Apache Indian or two
And a fraudster whose greatest trick was to convince the world he ever existed
Roll up, then, for the story of one of the strangest events in Anglo-American relations. Curious, clever and sharp, this is history to delight in.
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