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Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
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Hoover Dam: An American Adventure (1988) (edit title/settings)

by Joseph E. Stevens (Author) (edit contributors)

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Hoover Dam was the supreme engineering feat of its time (1931-1935), a triumph of American ingenuity and technology. More than half a century later, even with bigger and more sophisticated dams, it remains the benchmark, the granddaddy of big dams, yet this is the first full story of Hoover... read more

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William H. Wattis, seventy-two-year-old president of the Utah Construction Company, builder of railroads, highways, and dams, one of the wealthiest men in the West, was dying of cancer.

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  1. Joseph E. Stevens (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0806121157
Page Count: 400

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