Sources
Here are the sources for the historical background of Saffire — I’ve underlined what I feel are five essential books to get a complete view of the building of the Canal
(in no particular order — I bounced around a lot as I acquired the books!)
- Hunting Trips of A Ranchman, Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains by Theodore Roosevelt
- Zone Policeman 88: a close range study of the Panama Canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck
- Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker
- The Untold Story of Panama by Earl Harding
- The Panama Canal: A History of One of the Most Difficult Engineering Projects Ever by James K. Wheaton
- The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene
- The Building of the Canal in Historic Photographs by Ulrich Keller
- Essential Guide to the Panama Canal: History, An Army’s Enterprise by U.S. Government of Defense, U.S. Army, Army Corps of Engineers
- The Panama Canal: An Army’s Enterprise by Jon T. Hoffman, Michael J. Brodhead, Carol R. Byerly and Glenn F. Williams
- The Panama Canal (1913) Illustrated by Frederic J. Haskin
- The Panama Canal: Marvels of Engineering by Marvels of Engineering
- The Panama Canal (Illustrated) by J. Saxon Mills
- Buffalo Bill’s America by Louise S. Warren
- The Panama Canal: A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills
- The Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
- The Story of the Panama Canal by John B. McDonnell
- How Wall Street Created A Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt and The Panama Canal by Ovidio Diaz-Espino
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer
- Panama — Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Heloise Crowther
- The Roosevelt Panama Libel Case Against the New York World by HardPress Publishing
- The Story of Panama; the new route to India by Frank A Gause and Charles Carl Carr
- Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West by Isabelle S. Sayers
- Canal Zone Daughter: An American Childhood in Panama by Judy Haisten
- The Great Adventure of Panama — Wherein Are Exposed Its Relation of the Great War and also The Luminous Traces of the German Conspiracies Against France and the United States by Phillipe Bunau-Varilla
- Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
- Panama: A Personal Record of Forty-Six Years, 1861 – 1907 by Tracy Robinson
- The Panama Canal and its Makers by Vaughn Cornish
- The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt A Short, Easy History of the Spanish-American War by Helene A. Gerber
- Theodore Roosevelt; An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt