Rails Across Panama

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1967. Original blue cloth with silver titling on spine. This is the story of the Building of the Panama Railroad between 1849 and 1855. This railroad was built fifty years before the Panama Canal and carried half a billion dollars of gold, and much U.S. mail without a single loss. This, despite bandits and the loss of thousands of lives to illness and accidents. The railroad faded away as the U.S. transcontinental railroad made its way from coast to coast, but it was a marvel of its time. The book is clean and without defect, and the jacket is unclipped, uncanted, and minimally soiled. . First. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Dubuis, Charles (map). 8vo. Trade. (Inventory #: W590146)