Each Landmark is a book that brings to life a great event or personality in our nation's past. Each is designed to be rich, rewarding reading, capable of stirring the heart as well as the mind. Each is intended to arouse in the reader not only an interest in the course of history, but also an understanding of how the democracy that is our heritage was forged.

This one, as well, stirs the imagination as children read about a dream, a dream of a waterway through a narrow bit of land to connect two oceans and change the course of history and travel.