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Building Hoover Dam : an oral history of the Great Depression

1993

Format:	Book
Author:	Dunar, Andrew J., author.
Title:	Building Hoover Dam : an oral history of the Great Depression / Andrew J. Dunar, Dennis McBride.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1993] ©1993
Description:	xix, 350 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Summary:	An eyewitness account of the workers who constructed Hoover Dam between 1931 and 1936.
Series:	Twayne's oral history series ; no. 11 Twayne's oral history series ; no. 11.
Subjects:	Dams -- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Design and construction -- History. Construction workers -- Nevada -- Boulder City -- Interviews. Oral history. Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- History. Boulder City (Nev.) -- Biography.
Genre:	Oral histories.
Other Author:	McBride, Dennis, author.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index.
Contents:	Investigation and approval: southern Nevada, 1902-1929 -- Settlements: Black Canyon and vicinity, 1929-1931 -- Construction camp: Boulder City, 1931 -- Turning the river: Black Canyon, 1931 to November 1932 -- A government reservation: Boulder City, 1932-1934 -- A day in the life, 1931-1935 -- Off the reservation: Las Vegas, 1931-1935 -- Towers, penstocks, and spillways: Black Canyon, 1934 -- Completion: Hoover Dam and Boulder City, 1935 and after.
LCCN:	92044170
ISBN:	0805791108 9780805791105 0805791337 9780805791334
Other Number:	27173055
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	14454
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Call Number:	627.82 Dunar

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