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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Breihan, John R., Stan Piet, and Roger S. Mason. Martin Aircraft, 1909-1960. Santa Ana, CA: Narkiewicz-Thompson, ca. 1995.

Brewington, M. V. Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1963.

"The Bridge That Disappears." Glades Star 7 (March 1992): 2-3.

"Bridges over the Youghiogheny River." Glades Star 6 (September 1986): 48-51.

Brown, Alexander Crosby. The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940. New York: Bonanza, 1940.

Brown, William H. The History of the First Locomotives in America. New York: D. Appleton, 1871.
Notes: Includes an account and a dramatic fold-out illustration of the famous race between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's early locomotive, the <em>Tom Thumb</em>, and the horse.

Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Circle. Cambridge, MD: Cornell, 1965.

Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Sailing Craft. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater, 1975.

Burgess, Robert H. This Was Chesapeake Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1963.

Burgess, Robert H., and H. Graham Wood. Steamboats Out of Baltimore. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1965.

Buschman, Charles F. Streetcars of Baltimore, Some Drawings by Charles F. Buschman. Baltimore: Baltimore Streetcar Museum, 1995.

"But Nobody Got Paid." Glades Star 6 (June 1988): 198-200.
Notes: Train wreck at Oakland Station in 1897.

Byron, Gilbert. "The Old Chester River Bridge." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 16 (September 1986): 44-45.

"C&O Canal: A Towpath Tour." Maryland 20 (Spring 1988): 6- 19.

Cale, Clyde C. "Era of Pack-Horse Transportation." Glades Star 7 (September 1994): 437-41.

Calhoun, David Hovey. The American Civil Engineer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960.
Notes: Discusses Benjamin Henry Latrobe as engineer and other early civil engineers in Maryland whose work on the state's turnpikes, canals, and railroads laid the foundation for the civil engineering profession in America.

"The Canal Section That Was Not Built." Glades Star 7 (December 1994): 466-69.

Caplinger, Michael W. Bridges Over Time: A Technological Context for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Main Stem at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia Press, 1997.

Carlson, Robert E. "British Railroads and Engineers and the Beginnings of American Railroad Development." Business History Review 34 (1960): 137-149.

Carmer, Carl. The Susquehanna. New York: Rinehart, 1955.
Notes: One of the prestigious "Rivers of America" series, and for Marylanders a book-end volume to Frederick Gutheim's <em>The Potomac</em>. This is popular history at its best: powerfully-written, anecdotal--and what anecdotes! The story of Thomas Cresap is alone worth checking the book out of the library. Covers the downriver ark traffic and the attempts of steamboats to conquer the rocky and unruly Susquehanna.

Cather, Mike. "Mount Clare Memories." The Sentinel 17 (March/April 1995): 5-12.

Catton, William H. "How Rails Saved a Seaport." American Heritage 8 (1957): 26-31, 93-95.

Catton, William H. John W. Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio: A Study in Seaport and Railroad Competition, 1820-1874. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1959.

"Cecil County Postmasters-1853." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 66 (December 1993): 3, 7.

Chappell, Helen. "Bridging the Bay." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (June 1994): 44-49.

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