Format:
Book
Title:
Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century / Michael Hiltzik.
Author:
Hiltzik, Michael A.
Call Number:
627.820979 HILTZIK
Edition:
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Free Press, c2010.
Description:
496 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Dams -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Design and construction -- History.
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- History.
Contents:
Introduction: September 30, 1935: Roosevelt comes to the river -- 1: The sinful river -- The journey of death -- Born of the desert -- Rockwood's gamble -- The Lord's dame site -- 2: The road to black canyon -- Hoover steps in -- Battlegrounds -- Hurry-up Crowe -- The silver spike -- The big six -- Ragtown -- Rush job -- The Wobblies' last stand -- Ely's kingdom -- 3: The arch -- The jumbos -- Turning points -- The rising -- The pour -- Reckonings -- The crest -- Legacies.
ISBN:
1416532161
9781416532163