The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a construction and engineering firm made up of some of ...

The Hoover Dam captures water from the Colorado ... it and helped the economies in all three of those states. "The dam helped build Nevada, as the state felt that building it would bring economic ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

A beaver dam so huge, it was more than twice the length of the Hoover Dam. Located in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, ...

Walkers can step back into Hoover Dam history while getting some of their daily steps in Boulder City. The town, about a half-hour south of Las Vegas, helped build Hoover Dam. A self-guided ...

Andrew J. Dunar teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the co-author of Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. He answers a few questions about ...

At the Hoover Dam security checkpoint on the Nevada side ... "All tour tickets also give visitors access to the 1940s original exhibit building across the street from the visitor center ...