# London Bridge in America

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- Authors: [Travis Elborough](https://www.bookquiver.com/travis-elborough)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-02-06

## Description

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.

## Editions

### London Bridge in America

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9956-576-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2014-02-06
- Language: en_GB