One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years,
John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location
engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and
Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity
of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of
the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its
time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of
the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a
consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the
control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of
1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on
Stevens s surviving personal papers and materials from projects
with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating
look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer."
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