An excursion down the Chagres River from old Gatún to Fort San Lorenzo and the city of Chagres
Channel: Jaime Massot Hernández
Date: 2020-02-20

In 1906, rocks and earth began to fly in the Panama Canal and construction plans, by the best American engineers under military control, were being carried out to achieve one of the greatest projects in modern history.

Thomas Graham Grier's interest in this work led him to travel to the isthmus to personally investigate his execution. While in Panama, he wrote letters home, describing the most interesting and thought it would be of interest to his friends.

Upon returning to the United States, he compiled these letters and photographs in the form of a book that would be published in 1908. He did not pretend that it was a literary or artistic production but, those who read it, could have an idea of what life was like in the Canal Zone and the work done in this wonder of the world that would be inaugurated six years later (1914).