Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West

by Donald C. Jackson

Book Overview

Most water control projects in the American West depend on huge gravity dams, whose stability lies in massive quantities of concrete and earth or rock fill. In the early twentieth century, John S.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607161
• ISBN13: 9780700607167
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 10.3"