Title: Life and Death at Hoover Dam
Author: Jerry Borrowman (Black Canyon Press)
Price: FREE
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (16)
It’s 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam, the single largest public works project in history. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of the dam. In doing so they will create the largest man-made lake in the world. Nothing like it has ever been built.
Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a…