Seligman, J. & W., Company, 122
Seligman, Jesse, 120, 127, 128, 289
Service, Robert, 453
Sevareid, Eric, 616
Seward, William, 377
Shafter, General, 406
Shaler, James, 363–68, 370–76, 384, 470
Shanton, George, 494–95
Shaw, Albert, 381
Shaw, Leslie, 393, 400
Shenandoah, U.S.S., 176, 177
Sheridan, Philip H., 55
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 509
Shonts, Theodore, 455, 462–64, 470, 491, 492, 502, 530
appearance, personality, 463
appointed head of Canal Commission, 450
and Gorgas, 467–68
resignation from Commission, 503
and Roosevelt, 460, 491, 494, 502
and Stevens, 462, 464, 480, 485, 487, 491, 492
and Wallace, 450, 456, 458
Shufeldt, Robert, 26, 27
Sibert, William L., 432–33 illus., 534, 540–42, 566, 592, 605, 610
appointed to Canal Commission, 510
friction with Goethals, 540, 573
Sibert, Mrs. William L., 534, 566
Siboney, Cuba, 412–13
Siegfried, Andre, 229, 239
Sierra Nevada, 33
Simmons, Edward, 294
Slattery, J.J., 451
Slaven, Henry Bartholomew, 156, 158, 203
Slaven, Moses, 156
Slocum, Joshua, 255
Smalley, George, 212, 223, 256
smallpox, 37, 454
Smiles, Samuel, 25
Smith, Eleanor, 425
Smith, Jackson, 470, 478–79, 510, 538, 542
Smith, William Sooy, 284
Socialist Party, 567
Société Civile Internationale du Canal Interoceanique de Darien, see Türr Syndicate
Société de Dynamite, 209
Société de Géographie de Paris, 58, 59, 61, 62, 70, 72, 75
Société des Ingénieurs, 71, 86
Société Générale, 197
Soo Canal, 482, 484, 540
Sosa, Pedro, 63, 65, 71, 86
Sosa Dam, 539
Sosa Hill, 484, 540
South, University of the, 411
Southern Pacific, 273
Spain, canal labor from, 475, 477, 478
Spanish-American War, 255–57 “Spigs,” 586
Spooner, John Coit, 260, 269, 273, 317, 324, 340, 392, 397
Spooner Act, 329, 331, 341, 353, 406, 422, 449, 483
passed in House, 328
Spray, U.S. sloop, 255
Squires, Mrs. Herbert G., 564
Stackpole transits, 20
Star & Herald, see Panama Star & Herald
Stars and Stripes, 536
Statue of Liberty, 46, 192
Stearns, Frederick P., 482
Steele, Joshua, 575
Steffens, Lincoln, 247
Stephens, John Lloyd, 31–32, 35, 37, 105, 140, 283
Stephenson, Robert, 25
Sternberg, George Miller, 415
Stevens, John, 427 illus., 459–89
appointed Chief Engineer, 154, 459–60
background, 460–61
and Goethals, 531–33
labor supply, efficiency, 474–81
opinion of Wallace, 443, 458
public-health policy, 466–69, 581
railroad orientation, 468–71
and Roosevelt, 490–92, 494–500
resignation from project, 503–8
departure from Panama, 533
later life and death, 617
Stevens, Mrs. John, 460
Stokes, Sir John, 71
Strain, Isaac, 22–24, 41, 42
Straus, Oscar, 380
Sucubti River, 41, 42
Suez Canal, 49–54, 79–81, 130, 184, 193, 239, 483, 484
British takeover of, 59, 151, 188
compared with Panama Canal, 49, 155, 199, 530, 579, 610, 611
financing, 125
opening of, 24–25
Suez Canal Company, 57, 234
Sullivan, Algernon, 272
Sullivan, J. A, 42
Sullivan, Mark, 255, 573
Sullivan & Cromwell, 272, 339, 401
Summit Station, 111
Sutherland, Duke of, 185
Swatara, U.S.S., 177
Tabernilla, 549
Taboga Island, 134, 174, 566
Taft, William Howard, 365, 512, 542, 588
appearance, 445–46
and Goethals, 470, 504, 509–12, 532, 540, 573
and Gor gas’ work, 467, 572
and Isthmian Canal Commission, 408, 446–47, 449, 450, 491–92
Panama visits, 379, 445–46, 470, 512, 520 illus., 532, 540, 543, 569
Roosevelt and, 348, 446, 490–91, 494
and Stevens, 459–60, 462, 465, 485, 504, 505, 512
and Wallace, 446–47, 449, 455–58, 512
Taft, Mrs. William Howard, 446, 520 illus.
Tawney, James A., 539
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 562
Technical Committee, 77, 82–83, 106, 114, 116, 117, 155, 195
Tehuantepec Expedition, 26, 27
Telford, Thomas, 25, 29, 31
Teller, Henry M., 324
Temps, Le, 232
Tennessee, U.S.S., 177, 180, 493
Thayer, Sylvanus, 541
Thierée, Anthony, 216
Thierry, Charles (Baron) de, 30fn. Thomas, Samuel, 575
Thompson, Richard Wigginton, 127
Tiffany & Company, 285, 481
Time Machine, The (Wells), 499
Times, The, of London, 157, 240, 256
Tincauzer, Eugen, 482
tiradores, 362, 365, 380
Tiradores Battalion, 365
Tirard, Pierre, 196
Titanic, S.S., 539, 563, 591, 596
Tivoli Crossing, 494
Tivoli Hotel, 494, 495, 515 illus., 563, 567, 578, 580, 585
Tobar, Juan, 358, 364–66, 368–70, 372–76, 378, 380, 384
Tokyo Bay, S.S., 612
Tommasi-Crudeli, Doctor, 143
Toro Point beach, 566
Torres, Eliseo, 366, 372–76, 378, 384
Totten, George M., 106, 108, 110, 115, 185
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 233
Toussaint L’Ouverture, 141
Trautwine, John C, 39
Tribunal Civil, 203
tuberculosis, 581, 582
Tunkhannock Viaduct, 592
Turner, Anna, 425
Turner, George, 324
Türr, 1st van, 60–61, 75, 76, 101, 218
Türr Syndicate, 59–63, 66, 101, 118, 128, 213, 215
typhoid fever, 406, 580, 581, 582, 584
Ukraine, pogroms in, 206
Union League Club, 460
Union Pacific Railroad, 24, 471
United Fruit Company, 399
U.S. Army, 450
Engineers Corps, 22, 274, 275, 342, 505–7, 509–11, 532–33, 541
Fourth Infantry, 38
Medical Corps, 412
Panama intelligence mission, 348
Signal Corps, 20, 545
typical Canal Zone soldier, 568–69
Yellow Fever Commission, 414, 415, 422–23
U.S. Board of Trade, 71
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 73
U.S. House of Representatives:
Canal appropriations hearing, 538–539
canal-site issue in, 265, 266, 268, 269, 328
and canal-site study, 273–74
hearings on lock plan, 487–88
U.S. Marine Corps, 177–78, 300, 376, 420, 568
U.S. Naval Observatory, 59
U.S. Navy:
Bureau of Navigation, 22, 26, 180
and Canal width, 313, 539
and Panama revolution, 353, 378–379
and Prestan Uprising, 178–79
War College, 179, 250, 251
U.S. Senate:
canal-site is
sue in, 259–62, 265, 266, 268–70, 306–15, 317–25; see also Morgan, John Tyler
and Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, 388–89, 391, 395, 397–98
and Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, 256–259, 265
and lock plan, 486–88
U.S. State Department, see Hay ,John
U.S. Treasury Department, 400
Universal Exposition (1878), Paris, 597
Urabá, Gulf of, 44
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 39, 74
Vanderbilt, William K., 272
Varón, Ruben, 363, 376
Vatan, village, 50
Verbrugghe, Louis, 64, 131, 148
Verdi, Giuseppe, 54
Verne, Jules, 24, 54, 58, 121, 498
Versailles, 46
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 60
Victoria, Queen, 25, 55
Vienna, 138
Virginia, U.S.S., 313fn.
Viviani, Rene Raphael, 609
Voisin Bey, 72, 136
volcanoes, see earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Wachusett, U.S.S., 27, 176, 177, 179
Waisome, Jeremiah, 579–80
Waldeck-Rousseau, Pierre, 224
Waldo, Leonard, 326
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 286, 287, 349, 352, 356, 357, 387, 396
Walker, John G., 326, 330, 438–39, 446, 455
appearance, 305
appointed head of Canal Commission, 264, 274, 406–8
Canal purchase price, 266–67, 291–294
Commission report, 292–93
at Senate hearing, 306–15
public-health issue, 415, 421–23, 467
resignation from Commission, 449
Walker Commission, Second, see Isthmian Canal Commission
Wallace, John F., 421, 427 illus., 438–451, 464, 469, 478, 482, 508
background, 441–43
chosen Chief Engineer, 408
favors sea-level canal, 463, 482, 485, 487
quits project, 453–58, 460
Wallace, Mrs. John F., 446, 447, 449, 453
Ward, Captain, 157
Ward, C. D., 485
Wardlaw, Mr., 376
Washington, D.C., 120–21, 143, 245–248, 287
Washington, S.S., 162
Washington, U.S.S., 493
Washington House, Colon, 105
Washington Monument, 530
Washington Post, 248, 496
Washington Star, 323, 492
Weitzel Lock, 484
Welch, Ashbel, 485
Welch, William Henry, 407, 411, 422, 467
Welcker, J. W., 482
Wellman, William, 292–93
Wells, H. G, 490, 498–99
West, Robert, 451
Western Society Civil Engineers, 284
Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company, 457
West Point Military Academy, 541
Wheeling, W. Va., 597
Wheeling Mold and Foundry Company, 598
White, William Allen, 249
Whitehead, Richard, 536, 573
White Star Line, 321
White House, 247, 248, 249
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 251, 257, 570fn.
Willard Hotel, Washington, 388, 390, 391
Williams, Edward J., 470
Williams, James A., 583–85
Williamson, Sydney B., 541–42, 571, 593
Wilson, Woodrow, 512, 606, 608, 617
Windsor Hotel, New York, 119
Wines and Alcohols Bulletin, 232
Winslow, Lanier & Company, 122
Witte, Count Sergei, 279
women, 73, 560–63, 577, 586–87
Wood, Leonard, 406
Wood, Robert, E., 443–44, 469, 470, 477, 535, 586, 604
World Trade Center, New York, 591fn.
World War I, 609, 611
World War II, 612
Worsley, Robert, 564
Wright, Hamilton, 467
Wright, Harold Bell, 562
Wright, W. W., 106, 116
Wyoming, U.S.S., 379
Wyse, Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte, 61–67, 75, 88 illus., 101, 115, 215, 218, 342
at Congres International, 75–78, 81
Darien survey expedition, 62–63, 67
and Lesseps, 61fn., 102, 103, 185
mission to Bogota, 63–64, 66, 61
Nicaragua visit, 65
plan for sea-level Panama canal, 65–67, 77, 78, 81, 117
visit to U.S., 65, 67
Wyse Concession, 66–67, 85, 101, 103, 128, 331, 342
Yale University, 258, 381, 383, 570
Ycaza, DOn Eduardo, 376
yellow fever, 137–42, 144–45, 172, 175, 424, 443, 451–54, 473
American troops felled by, 406
description, symptoms, 140–42
Dingier family deaths, 160–61, 171, 447
Gorgas’ work on, 409–19, 447–49, 451–52, 464–68, 500, 585
and moral decadence, 145–47
mosquito as carrier, 142, 315, 421–423, 448–49
remedy or palliative for, 141
wave effect in outbreaks, 421
Yellow Jack (Howard), 413
Y.M.C.A., 516–17 illus., 560, 565, 576
Yucatan, S.S., 357, 358
Zelaya, Jose Santos, 317–18
Zone Policeman 88 (Franck), 567
Praise for Truman
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—C. Vann Woodward, The New York Review
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—Jean Strouse, author of Alice James: A Biography
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—W. A. Swanberg, C
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—Rhoda Koenig, New York magazine
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—William Manchester, author of William Spencer Churchill: The Last Lion
“David McCullough brings Truman vividly to life in this masterpiece of American biography. It’s a superb political study and human history.”
—Steve Neal, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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—Stanley I. Kutler, Chicago Tribune
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—Geoffrey C. Ward, author of The Civil War: An Illustrated History
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