The Pass He Walked Alone
In December 1889 he walked a snowbound Montana ridge alone, reading a mountain crossing no survey had marked. Years later he was called to rescue a canal that had defeated an empire.
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The Bridge He Gave to Flight
He built the bridges that let railroads cross a continent, then applied the same trussed structure to the wing. He gave the knowledge of flight away rather than chase the patent.
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The Man Who Bridged the Ocean
In 1917 a short man in a bow tie stood at a windswept strait and proposed to span a mile of open ocean channel that many engineers swore could never be bridged. He spent more than a decade fighting to prove them wrong.
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The Man Who Walked the River
With little schooling past his teens, he walked the bed of the Mississippi in a whiskey-barrel diving bell, then went on to build ironclad gunboats and a steel bridge that experts swore would fall.
