This book reflects on the plight of the so-called “West Indians” who came by the tens of thousands from the Caribbean islands to the wilderness of the Isthmus of Panama at the dawn of the twentieth century and who gave, in most cases, the last ounce of their strengths, and in many cases their lives, to help create the miracle of the Panama Canal. The disappearance of La Boca, Canal Zone, as a West Indian town (like many other “silver” towns) served as the strongest incentive for the author to write this book.