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The Life and Deaths of John Henry - Scott Reynolds Nelson. Steel Drivin' Man: The Untold Story of an American Legend. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 214 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-530010-9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Ethan Blue
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2008

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