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Author : Cheryl Ferrence
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0738525545
Author : Cheryl Ferrence
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738558761
The original planners of Boulder City, Nevada, did not expect that the community of workers and engineers would outlast the construction of the great Hoover Dam. The subsequent years challenged this assumption, however, as Boulder City continued to grow and thrive even after the dam was completed and the waters of the Colorado River were harnessed. As more families took road trips to visit the dam and other southwestern attractions, Boulder City became a tourism hub. Shops, restaurants, and hotels, including the famous Boulder Dam Hotel, were built, and even more visitors flocked to the nearby Lake Mead National Recreation Area after its establishment in 1964. Elton M. Garrett aptly described the city in the masthead of his newspaper, the Boulder Dam Challenge, in 1936: "Boulder City Carries On With Spirit With Which Boulder Dam Challenged Rio Colorado."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556032758625
Author : Vince Welch,Cort Conley,Brad Dimock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Boaters (Persons)
ISBN : 1892327074
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Arch dams
ISBN : WISC:89078540390
Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Arch dams
ISBN : MSU:31293009630066
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2048 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031655189
Author : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045108144
Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2950 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104230877
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045390916
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : UOM:39015077923624
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000088146331
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112120068009
Author : Joseph E. Stevens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780806173979
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.