Main entry:

Dunar, Andrew J.

Title & Author:

Building Hoover Dam : an oral history of the Great Depression / Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride.

Publication:

Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, [2001?], ©1993.

Description:

xix, 350 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : Twayne Publishers, ©1993. (Twayne's oral history series ; no. 11).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index.
Investigation and approval, Southern Nevada, 1902-1929 -- Settlements, Black canyon and vicinity, 1929-1931 -- Construction camp, Boulder City, 1931 -- Turning the river, Black canyon, 1931 to November 1932 -- A government reservation, Boulder City, 1932-1934 -- Laying the foundation, Black Canyon, 1932-1934 -- A day in the life, 1931-1935 -- Off the reservation, Las Vegas, 1931-1935 -- Towers, penstocks, and spillways, Black Canyon, 1934 -- Completion, Hoover Dam and Boulder City, 1935 and after.

Summary:

Presents an account of the building of the Hoover Dam between 1931 and 1936 as told by people who worked on its construction.

ISBN:

0874174899 (alk. paper)
9780874174892 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Dams Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Design and construction History.
Construction workers Nevada Boulder City Interviews.
Oral history.
Barrages Colorado (Col.-Mexique : Fleuve) Conception et construction Histoire.
Ouvriers de la construction Nevada Boulder City Entretiens.
Histoire orale.
Construction workers.
Dams Design and construction.
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) History.
Boulder City (Nev.) Biography.
Hoover Dam (Ariz. et Nev.) Histoire.
Nevada Boulder City.
North America Colorado River.
United States Hoover Dam.

Form/genre:

Biography.
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Biographies.
interviews.
History.

Added entries:

McBride, Dennis.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217781
Call No.: TC557.5.H6 D8 2001
Status: Available