Jungle of Stone

by William Carlsen

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  Notes

  PROLOGUE

  1.Much of the material describing the building of the railroad was drawn from numerous letters in Stephens’s personal papers housed in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Other background material was found in the following: Otis, F. N. (1867). Isthmus of Panama: History of the Panama railroad; and of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Together with a travelers’ guide and business man’s hand-book for the Panama Railroad and the lines of steamships connecting it with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867); J. H. Kemble and J. B. Goodman, The Panama Route, 1848–1869 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943); O. Lewis and J. B. Goodman, Sea Routes to the Gold Fields: The Migration by Water to California in 1849–1852 (New York: Knopf, 1949); J. L. Schott, Rails Across Panama: The Story of the Building of the Panama Railroad, 1849–1855 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967); G. Mack, The Land Divided: A History of the Panama Canal and Other Isthmian Canal Projects (New York: Octagon Books, 1974); D. McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977).

  2.John Lloyd Stephens Papers, 1795–1882, University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library.

  CHAPTER 1: SOUTH, 1839

  1.All quotes and paraphrases as well as the general narrative of the Stephens-Catherwood 1839–42 journeys to Central America and Mexico are taken from J. L. Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841), and J. L. Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843).