By Kelly Milner Halls
This ebook relays the authentic info of the tale of the Hoover Dam, which used to be inbuilt the Nineteen Thirties. The narrative presents a number of money owed of the development, and readers examine information in the course of the perspective of a Colorado River explorer, a dam employee, and a dam workers daughter. The textual content bargains possibilities to check and distinction a number of views within the textual content whereas collecting and interpreting information regarding a ancient occasion.
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Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 2010. com/topics/hoover-dam This Web site has more information, including videos, about the Hoover Dam. gov/lc/hooverdam/ Visitors to this Web site will find photographs that were taken during the Hoover Dam’s construction. 31 Index Alamo Canal, 9 Black Canyon, 6, 18, 21, 23–25, 28 Boulder Canyon Project Act, 6–7 Boulder City, Nevada, 28 Colorado River, 4–6, 8–11, 21, 26 Congress, 7 Coolidge, Calvin, 6 Crowe, Frank, 22 Grand Canyon, 5–6 Grand Coulee Dam, 29 Great Depression, 13–15, 20, 29 high scaler, 22–28 Hoover Dam, 11, 19 hydroelectric power, 9–10, 11 irrigation, 6, 8 Ives, Joseph Christmas, 6 Las Vegas, Nevada, 21 Powell, John Wesley, 4–6 deaths, 25–26 drilling jumbo, 18 farming, 6, 8–9 Ragtown, Nevada, 15–16, 18, 21–22, 28 Russell, Jack, 25 Six Companies, 21, 28 About the Author Kelly Milner Halls has written nearly 30 books, along with hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles.
We’re fed three square meals a day in the company mess hall for cheap too. 28 I can eat all I want, enough food for three guys, and the mess hall workers don’t say a word. If the Great Depression isn’t over when we finish this dam, I think I’ll go with the other guys to Washington State. I hear they will be building the Grand Coulee Dam out there, and I hope I’ll be able to get a job with the skills I’ve gained here. Plus, I’ll be able to Analyze This Analyze the accounts of Butch Wilson and Stuart perform death-defying feats for Latimer.
New York: Mikaya, 2001. Zuehlke, Jeffrey. The Hoover Dam. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 2010. com/topics/hoover-dam This Web site has more information, including videos, about the Hoover Dam. gov/lc/hooverdam/ Visitors to this Web site will find photographs that were taken during the Hoover Dam’s construction. 31 Index Alamo Canal, 9 Black Canyon, 6, 18, 21, 23–25, 28 Boulder Canyon Project Act, 6–7 Boulder City, Nevada, 28 Colorado River, 4–6, 8–11, 21, 26 Congress, 7 Coolidge, Calvin, 6 Crowe, Frank, 22 Grand Canyon, 5–6 Grand Coulee Dam, 29 Great Depression, 13–15, 20, 29 high scaler, 22–28 Hoover Dam, 11, 19 hydroelectric power, 9–10, 11 irrigation, 6, 8 Ives, Joseph Christmas, 6 Las Vegas, Nevada, 21 Powell, John Wesley, 4–6 deaths, 25–26 drilling jumbo, 18 farming, 6, 8–9 Ragtown, Nevada, 15–16, 18, 21–22, 28 Russell, Jack, 25 Six Companies, 21, 28 About the Author Kelly Milner Halls has written nearly 30 books, along with hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles.