Battle of Backbone Mountain

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English: Wood engraving illustrating the plan for an "Interoceanic Ship Railway" in Central America between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, proposed by James B. Eads in the late 19th century. It was never built, and the Panama Canal was built instead. (image cropped and cleaned up)
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This image or file is extracted from a scan of the Mining and Scientific Press,
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The original image is on page 206 of the issue dated March 28, 1885, available at the Internet Archive
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Author Signature lower left, "J. [o, q, d]. Davidson". In lower right indicates was originally made for Scientific American
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