This video is dedicated to the men who dug the canals by hand. Using picks and shovels they dug a ditch and lined it with clay to prevent the canal water from draining out. Working at times in miserable conditions for low pay they persevered to open the midwest to further expansion.

I would like to thank Foster Brown for allowing me to use his music for this video. This song and his other albums can be found at www.fosterbrown.net.