Article ID: CBB549994826

Desert Colossus (Fall 2006)

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Everything about the Hoover Dam is unfathomably enormous—and it went up in less than three years during America’s worst depression.

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Authors & Contributors
Jackson, Donald C.
Williams, John
Gray Fitzsimons
Denton, Sally
Turk, Michelle Follette
Arrigo, Anthony F.
Journals
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Pacific Historical Review
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Publishers
University of Nevada Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Utah State University Press
University of West Virginia Press
University of Washington Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Dams
Civil engineering
Industrial archaeology
Engineering
Water resource management
Hydroelectric power
People
Hoover, Herbert
Eastwood, John S.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Colorado River (North America)
Canada
Muskingum River
Concord, New Hampshire
St. Clair Tunnel
Institutions
Grand Canyon National Park
Sierra Club
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