Raising Arizona's Dams: Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Construction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s-1940s

By Melissa Keane, D. Lorne McWatters, Richard P. Emanuel, et al.

Book Overview

Raising Arizona's Dams focuses on the lives of the laborers and families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams along the Salt, Verde, and Agua Fria rivers. It is also illustrated with dozens of historical photographs, and the authors draw upon a wide array of sources-archaeological evidence, census counts, court documents, government records, newspapers and magazines, and oral histories-to reconstruct life in these long-forgotten camps.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816514917
• ISBN13: 9780816514915
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 11.0" x 7.0"