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America's Master Dam Builder is a sweeping biographical epic of Frank T. Crowe. Author Al M. Rocca presents a fascinating story that covers the engineering challenges and triumphs Crowe encountered, from his earliest days with the United States Reclamation Service to his phenomenal conquests of Hoover, Parker and Shasta Dams. Rocca shows how one man rose to the top of the engineering world and supplied the drive and innovation that permitted the construction of large concrete dams, dams of unprecedented size, dams that would transform the American West.
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xii |
| The Early Years, 1882-1905 | p. 1 |
| Go West Young Man, 1906-1911 | p. 11 |
| "I feel that I am simply marking time" 1912-1921 | p. 37 |
| "I am here to go to work" 1921 | p. 67 |
| "No matter how bad the weather gets, the work at Rimrock will not shut down" 1922-1925 | p. 95 |
| "I feel like a bull in a china shop" 1925-1927 | p. 124 |
| "I have never become 'desk broke' in all these years" 1927-1930 | p. 156 |
| "I was wild to build this dam" Hoover Dam, 1931 | p. 174 |
| "We are six months ahead of schedule on the work now and we can afford to refuse concessions" Hoover Dam, 1931 | p. 198 |
| "We had 5,000 men jammed in a 4,000-foot canyon. The problem, which was a problem in materials flow, was to set up the right sequence of jobs so they wouldn't kill each other off." Hoover Dam, 1932 | p. 216 |
| "You know that what you build will stand for centuries." Hoover Dam, 1933-1935 | p. 241 |
| "We are plugging along here, digging a hole in the riverbed 250 feet deep to find a foundation for our dam." Parker Dam, 1936-1938 | p. 274 |
| The "Old Man" Shasta Dam, 1938-1940 | p. 293 |
| "Dams have been good to me" Shasta Dam, 1941-1945 | p. 318 |
| Epilogue "Builder" 1945-46 | p. 344 |
| Notes | p. 353 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 388 |
| Index | p. 392 |
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ISBN: 9780761821441
ISBN-10: 0761821449
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 414
Published: December 2001
Publisher: University Press of America
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.0
x 3.0
Weight (kg): 0.603
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