Jared

“Later, following the funeral, he took all the family’s horses, including his own, up into one of the mountain ravines and shot them.”
― David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas

“At one point an elderly resident Frenchman told him that if he persisted with his plan there would not be trees enough on the Isthmus to make the crosses to put over the graves of his laborers.”
― David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas

“Knowing that masks donned in time could protect against gas, they began loading shells with sneezing powder, which seeped through the masks’ filters.”
― Joseph E. Persico, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918

“But even if a person were ignorant of such things, the sight of a moving train held aloft above the great gorge at Niagara by so delicate a contrivance was, in the 1860’s, nothing short of miraculous. The bridge seemed to defy the most fundamental laws of nature. Something so slight just naturally ought to give way beneath anything so heavy. That it did not seemed pure magic.”
― David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge