The Golden Horse

"I prophesy that someday men will have to create lawswhich render it impossible for the prosperity of some toentail the misery of others." Many people know the story of the Panama Canal, but few know that of thePanama Railroad: the first transcontinental railroad of the Americas thatwas built during the California Gold Rush. From 1851-55, a handful ofadventurers and inventive engineers drove the enterprise to tame the unexplored junglewilderness that would soon become the first inter-oceanic rai