The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

by Erika Marie Bsumek

2024 Best Indigenous Studies Award, The Mormon History Association
2024 Southwest Book of the Year, Pima County Public Library

A history of how the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam was built and sustained by social inequalities

The second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, Glen Canyon Dam was built to control the flow of the Colorado River throughout the Western United States. Completed in 1966, the dam...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477303812
• ISBN13: 9781477303818
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"