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Minter, John Easter. The Chagres: River of Westward Passage. Illustrated by William Wellons. [Rivers of America].
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1948). First Edition.
Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), burgundy spine label, gilt letters, top edge burgundy, xiv + 418 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers & page edges; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The Chagres is the thirty-fifth volume in the Rivers of america series and the first one written about a river outside the continental United States. The river of the Canal Zone, the Chagres, has an immensely exciting story. Christopher Columbus arrived on the river in 1502 and started the white man's history of the Chagres. The Chagres was originally a Spanish river -- the gateway to Peru -- and along its banks millions in gold were transported across the isthmus by slaves chained in long lines. Gold was naturally followed by banditry and banditry by piracy. The big men ranged from explorers like Balboa who treated the natives fairly, through Pedrarias, the tyrannical Spanish governor who reduced the population by 80% in eleven years, to Sir Henry Morgan, the wickedest of pirates, who raped, slaughtered, stole and even cheated his own men. After a brief peaceful interlude, the Chagres once again became vitally important during the Gold Rush of Ô49 when the transisthmian route became the shortest way from the eastern United States to California. The river's modern story is the history of the Panama Canal...
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90.00 USD
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