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Author : United States Department of the Interior
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hoover Dam Documents written by United States Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milton N. Nathanson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Updating the Hoover Dam Documents, 1978 written by Milton N. Nathanson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Ott Verburg
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160882012
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Colorado River Documents 2008 (Hardcover Book and Autoloading DVD) written by Katherine Ott Verburg and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's operation and management of the Colorado River on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior from 1979 through 2008. Details the political, legal, institutional, and other instruments developed to address pressing issues faced by Colorado River Basin water users and managers. Reflective of its era, the 2008 volume has an increased focus on coordinated operations of the river in both the Upper and Lower Basins, on environmental matters, on the relationship with Mexico, and on Native American water settlements.
Author : Katherine Ott Verburg
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Colorado River Documents, 2008 written by Katherine Ott Verburg and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by the Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Colorado and Lower Colorado Regions, in collaboration with the Boulder City Field Solicitor, this is the latest of four books published by the Bureau of Reclamation to address the management of the Colorado River since the early 1900s. It summarizes 30 years of updates to the "Law of the Colorado River," a compilation of compacts, federal laws, court decisions and decrees, contracts, and regulatory guidelines that have been implemented over nearly a century to guide the management and operation of the Colorado River. It details the statutes, policies, agreements, and court decisions related to river operations, environmental matters, Mexican treaty deliveries, water development, water entitlement actions, Native American water settlements, proceedings in Arizona v. California, and power generation and distribution issues. All four books are available on the DVD.
Author : Milton N. Nathanson
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Updating the Hoover Dam documents, 1978 written by Milton N. Nathanson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wesley R. Nelson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Boulder Canyon Project written by Wesley R. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Estados Unidos Bureau of Reclamation
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Updating the Hoover Dam Documents written by Estados Unidos Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph E. Stevens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806173971
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Hoover Dam written by Joseph E. Stevens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Hoover Dam written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Lyman Wilbur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts and Related Data written by Ray Lyman Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Story of Hoover Dam written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Lyman Wilbur
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Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Construction of Hoover Dam written by Ray Lyman Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
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Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hoover Dam Documents written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Story of Hoover Dam written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Vilander
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816548269
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Hoover Dam written by Barbara Vilander and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoover Dam was constructed during one of the most depressed economic climates in American history, in a remote desert canyon where temperatures ranged from single to triple digits. In order to visually document the project, the Bureau of Reclamation assigned employee Ben Glaha to photograph all aspects of the dam's construction. Glaha's photographs were used in press releases, periodicals, books, pamphlets, and slide shows to demonstrate that the dam was structurally sound and that government funds were being used wisely. Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha is the first detailed examination of Glaha's images of the project, some of which have never before been published. Glaha photographed every aspect of the construction process—from details of how the dam was assembled to the overall progress as the dam rose from the bottom of the dry riverbed. Glaha not only provided the Bureau with the photographs it required, he also employed his own artistic abilities to produce images of the dam that were exhibited in museums and galleries as works of art. Because Glaha was able to create a selection of Hoover Dam photographs worthy of exhibition, he was unique among government documentary photographers. Art historian Barbara Vilander's text places Glaha's efforts within the historical context of western landscape exploration and development and reveals how his particular qualifications led to his selection as the project photographer. Vilander then examines the many publications and venues in which the Bureau used Glaha's photographs to create support for the project. She also discusses how Glaha was recognized in his own era as an influential artist and teacher, and compares his work with that of other contemporary landscape photographers addressing western water management. Glaha's Hoover Dam images were widely published, although in accordance with Bureau policy he was not usually given personal credit and therefore his name remains largely unknown. Vilander's book corrects that oversight by giving Glaha the technical and artistic credit he is due within the context of one of the most ambitious projects in American history.
Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hoover Dam Power and Water Contracts and Related Data written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440672822
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Cadillac Desert written by Marc Reisner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.
