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Title Raising Arizona's dams : daily life, danger, and discrimination in the dam construction camps of central Arizona, 1890s-1940s / A.E. Rogge [and others]
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps
Summary This is the engrossing story of the unsung heroes who did the day-to-day work of building Arizona's dams, focusing on the lives of laborers and their families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona. <br /><br /> The book focuses primarily on the 1903-1911 Roosevelt Dam camps and the 1926-1927 Camp Pleasant at Waddell Dam, although other camps dating from the 1890s through the 1940s are discussed as well. The book is liberally illustrated with historic photographs of the camps and the people who occupied them while building the dams. <br /><br />
Analysis Dams Construction History
Arizona
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-203) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Construction workers -- Arizona -- History
Dams -- Arizona -- History
Irrigation engineering -- Arizona -- History
Cities and towns -- Arizona -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
Cities and towns
Construction workers
Dams
Irrigation engineering
Social conditions
SUBJECT Arizona -- Social conditions
Arizona -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007184
Subject Arizona
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Rogge, A. E
ISBN 9780816535989
0816535981