The story of the rule of Panama by these arbitrary satraps sent down from Bogota reads like the history of the rule of a Roman proconsul or the story
Columbia’s Negotiations Regarding the Panama Canal
Then occurred to him an idea of high finance which ought to make the most imaginative and audacious of our promoters blush at their
The Need for an American Canal
Our Government has repeatedly asserted the necessity for the canal, and that it would look with extreme hostility upon its being built or owned or
Reaction to Roosevelt’s Panama Policy
The building of the canal, the bringing of Panama under an American protectorate, the tacit acquiescence of all the world in American action, the
USA Acquires Rights to Build the Panama Canal
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Panama Declares Independence from Columbia.IntroductionWhen the United
In the Pacific Northwest
Today's installment concludes Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker by Ezra Meeker published
Crossing the Snake River
They converted the wagons into makeshift boats.Continuing Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra
The Human Cost of the Oregon Trail
It is certain that history gives no record of such great numbers migrating so long a distance as that of the Pioneers of the Plains, where, as we have
Encountering American Indians
We did not, however, have much trouble with the Indians in 1852.Continuing Life on the Oregon Trail,our selection from The Busy Life of