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Boulder Canyon Project
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Arch dams |
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Miscellaneous Pamphlets Concerning the Boulder Canyon Project
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1931 |
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Hoover Dam
Author | : Joseph E. Stevens |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-09-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0806148144 |
In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West. Construction of the giant dam was a triumph of human ingenuity, yet the full story of this monumental endeavor has never been told. Now, in an engrossing, fast-paced narrative, Joseph E. Stevens recounts the gripping saga of Hoover Dam. Drawing on a wealth of material, including manuscript collections, government documents, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and personal interviews and correspondence with men and women who were involved with the construction, he brings the Hoover Dam adventure to life. Described here in dramatic detail are the deadly hazards the work crews faced as they hacked and blasted the dam’s foundation out of solid rock; the bitter political battles and violent labor unrest that threatened to shut the job down; the deprivation and grinding hardship endured by the workers’ families; the dam builders’ gambling, drinking, and whoring sprees in nearby Las Vegas; and the stirring triumphs and searing moments of terror as the massive concrete wedge rose inexorably from the canyon floor. Here, too, is an unforgettable cast of characters: Henry Kaiser, Warren Bechtel, and Harry Morrison, the ambitious, headstrong construction executives who gambled fortune and fame on the Hoover Dam contract; Frank Crowe, the brilliant, obsessed field engineer who relentlessly drove the work force to finish the dam two and a half years ahead of schedule; Sims Ely, the irascible, teetotaling eccentric who ruled Boulder City, the straightlaced company town created for the dam workers by the federal government; and many more men and women whose courage and sacrifice, greed and frailty, made the dam’s construction a great human, as well as technological, adventure. Hoover Dam is a compelling, irresistible account of an extraordinary American epic.
Boulder Canyon
Author | : Jason Haas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578453064 |
A comprehensive rock climbing guide to 2,500 climbs in Boulder Canyon outside Boulder, CO
Boulder Canyon Project: Contract for Electrical Energy, the United States and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, April 26, 1930, Amended May 31, 1930
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1930 |
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Water is for Fighting Over
Author | : John Fleck |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1610916794 |
"Illuminating." --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. Yet despite decades of headlines warning of mega-droughts, the death of agriculture, and the collapse of cities, the Colorado River basin has thrived in the face of water scarcity. John Fleck shows how western communities, whether farmers and city-dwellers or U.S. environmentalists and Mexican water managers, actually have a promising record of conservation and cooperation. Rather than perpetuate the myth "Whiskey's for drinkin', water's for fightin' over," Fleck urges readers to embrace a new, more optimistic narrative--a future where the Colorado continues to flow.