Dunar Andrew J. Dunar, Mcbride Dennis Mcbride

Building Hoover Dam (eBook, ePUB)

An Oral History Of The Great Depression

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 builders who, it was claimed, had died of "e;pneumonia"e;; the uproarious life of nearby Las Vegas versus the tightly controlled existence of the workers in the built-overnight confines of Boulder City; and of course the astounding accomplishment of building the Dam itself and completing the task not only early but under budget!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780874173833
• Artikelnr.: 46760823

Autorenporträt

Andrew J. Dunar is a professor of history and chair of the department of history at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He has published several books on history and politics, and he won the History Book Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 2000. Dennis McBride is a long-term researcher, archivist, and writer about Southern Nevada. He founded the research facility at the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum, and is currently curator of history and collections for the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas.