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Edenborne Empire Road Dream Calls Shreveport Crown
A dramatic, hyperbolic profile extols William Edenborne as the era’s supreme innovator. It describes his plan to build an enormous regional road from Coushalla to Shreveport, promising wealth, urban growth, and a galaxy of new towns. The piece frames Shreveport as central to a national boom, with taxes and widows used to fund a government-backed bonus for the project.
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Mr. Edenborn
Ted
Edenborne
Ios
Kinz
Conguer
Suniversé
Jay Gould
Coushalla
Shreveport
California
Yosemite Valley