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Robert W. (Robert Wells) Rogers
b. 1873
Best known for The United Seas, this early-20th-century writer seems to have focused on the story and promise of the Panama Canal. Very little biographical detail is readily confirmed, which gives his work an intriguing, half-forgotten quality.
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"The United Seas"
by Robert W. (Robert Wells) Rogers
About the author
Robert W. Rogers, also listed as Robert Wells Rogers, was an American author born in 1873. The clearest confirmed work tied to him is The United Seas, a book about the Panama Canal that was published in the 1910s and is now available through public-domain library collections.
Beyond that, reliable biographical information appears to be scarce. Catalog and archive records consistently connect the name Robert Wells Rogers with The United Seas, but they do not provide much broader detail about his life, career, or other publications.
That limited paper trail is part of what makes him interesting to modern readers: he survives mainly through a book shaped by a moment when the canal stood for engineering ambition, global travel, and a changing world.