NGS Adventure - Panama Canal : The Mountain and the Mosquito
When the Panama Canal project's initial leader went mad (after his entire family died of yellow fever), Gorgas took control of the project. To ensure its completion and US control, Theodore Roosevelt later bought out French interests. The canal was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers, led by Lt. George Washington Goethals (who wrote a seminal article in the February 1911 National Geographic Magazine).
