This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Canal Dream and Collapse of the Panama Venture
A historical account traces early canal schemes from Darien to Nicaragua, detailing De Lesseps and Wyse, the Universal Inter Oceanic Canal company, and the French effort. It covers exploration, corruption, endemic disease, financial ruin, and the 1888 crash leading to the US takeover and remnants of French infrastructure left on the isthmus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bcorchman
Patterson
Caledonian Bay
Panama
Nicaragua
Darien
von Humboldt
Latin America
Spain
Central American and
United States Atlantic and Pacific Canal Company
DeWitt Clinton
United States Senate
Nicarapa
Hogota
Lucien Napoleon Bosaparte Wyse
Ferdinand de Leasepa
Albert Edwards
de Lessepa
Suez Canal
Paris
Comte
Wyse
Count de Lesseps
Universal Interoceanic Canal Company
Wyne
Congress
Brancais
United States
Monroe
de Lesrens
Eerneet
Wimeeit
Tree Chin
Aytteed
Pranes
Anil
Colen
Pavaria
Lannery
Mile
Ferdinando Des Seraieys
Bogota
Edwards
de Lesseps
New ‘Rent Canal Company
Cou Ct
Siew
Swesepe’ Palace
Cristobal
Novaes
Ancona
Colon
Uncle Sam
Holf