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Life and Death at Hoover Dam

Jerry Borrowman
3.79/5 (308 ratings)
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It's 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of the dam, thus creating the largest man-made lake in the world. Nothing like it has ever been built. Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these men and the sacrifices they endured. From choking on gasoline fumes in 120-degrees inside the diversion tunnels to dangling by slender cables from the thousand-foot walls of Black Canyon, they will put their lives at risk. In the end, these men and the 20,000 others who worked on the dam will build a monument that makes possible the palm trees of Los Angeles and the desert oasis of Phoenix. This is the story of their lives-the men who built the matchless Hoover Dam.
Format:
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Black Canyon Press
Edition:
Second Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0043M4SHM

Life and Death at Hoover Dam

Jerry Borrowman
3.79/5 (308 ratings)
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It's 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of the dam, thus creating the largest man-made lake in the world. Nothing like it has ever been built. Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these men and the sacrifices they endured. From choking on gasoline fumes in 120-degrees inside the diversion tunnels to dangling by slender cables from the thousand-foot walls of Black Canyon, they will put their lives at risk. In the end, these men and the 20,000 others who worked on the dam will build a monument that makes possible the palm trees of Los Angeles and the desert oasis of Phoenix. This is the story of their lives-the men who built the matchless Hoover Dam.
Format:
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Black Canyon Press
Edition:
Second Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0043M4SHM

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