Book of Donmon Teith

While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where

In 1988, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began an investigation of the benefits and costs of extending several locks on the lower portion of the Upper Mississi

This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military