Story Of Hoover Dam
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The Story Of Hoover Dam
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Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Story Of Hoover Dam written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Colorado River categories.
Story Of Hoover Dam
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Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Story Of Hoover Dam written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
The Story Of Hoover Dam
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
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The Story Of The Hoover Dam
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Author : Ingersoll-Rand Company
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
The Story Of The Hoover Dam written by Ingersoll-Rand Company and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) categories.
The Story Of The Hoover Dam
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Author : Kelly Milner Halls
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2014-01-01
The Story Of The Hoover Dam written by Kelly Milner Halls and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This book relays the factual details of the story of the Hoover Dam, which was built in the 1930s. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Colorado River explorer, a dam worker, and a dam worker's daughter. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.
The Story Of Hoover Dam
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Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Story Of Hoover Dam written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) categories.
The Story Of The Hoover Dam
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
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Building Hoover Dam
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Author : Andrew J. Dunar
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Building Hoover Dam written by Andrew J. Dunar and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with History categories.
Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam. These stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers on record; the fearsome carbon monoxide deaths of tunnel builders who, it was claimed, had died of "pneumonia"; the uproarious life of nearby Las Vegas versus the tightly controlled existence of the workers in the built-overnight confines of Boulder City; and of course the astounding accomplishment of building the Dam itself and completing the task not only early but under budget!
The Story Of Hoover Dam
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Author : Gail Blasser Riley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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Colossus
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Author : Michael Hiltzik
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-20
Colossus written by Michael Hiltzik and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-20 with History categories.
As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces. For embodied in the dam’s striking machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation’s very culture—the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal’s outstanding—and enduring—symbol of national pride. Yet the story of Hoover Dam has a darker side. Its construction was a gargantuan engineering feat achieved at great human cost, its progress marred by the abuse of a desperate labor force. The water and power it made available spurred the development of such great western metropolises as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, but the vision of unlimited growth held dear by its designers and builders is fast turning into a mirage. In Hiltzik’s hands, the players in this epic historical tale spring vividly to life: President Theodore Roosevelt, who conceived the project; William Mulholland, Southern California’s great builder of water works, who urged the dam upon a reluctant Congress; Herbert Hoover, who gave the dam his name though he initially opposed its construction; Frank Crowe, the dam’s renowned master builder, who pushed his men mercilessly to raise the beautiful concrete rampart in an inhospitable desert gorge. Finally there is Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over the ultimate completion of the project and claimed the credit for it. Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and unforgettable storytelling to shed new light on a major turning point of twentieth-century history.