The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut huge profits from entrance fees. This is one of Rosa's most historically accurate stories. The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut" is a 2001 Donald Duck comic story by Don Rosa. Rosa intended it as an "in-between" story to accompany his anthology "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", happening chronologically between chapter 10: "The Invader of Fort Duckburg" and chapter 11: "The Empire-Builder from Calisota". The story is set in 1906. Scrooge McDuck, along with his sisters Hortense McDuck and Matilda McDuck are mining for gold in Panama, which has just recently separated from
Donald Duck universe location more vaguely defined. However, in Don Rosa's "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck", the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: "I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast... but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city." Knowing how Don Rosa used gags, it is likely that this city would be Eureka, California ("Eureka" meaning 'I found it'!). This fits with the river