Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression

by Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride

Book Overview

Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam. These stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers on record; the fearsome carbon monoxide deaths of tunnel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874174899
• ISBN13: 9780874174892
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"