Page and Lake Powell (Images of America) - Softcover

Ward, Jane E.; Keisling, Kimberly; Powell Museum Archives

Softcover

ISBN 10: 146713158X ISBN 13: 9781467131582

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2014

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Reseña del editor

The people who descended on the remote northern Arizona wilderness in the early 1950s to build Glen Canyon Dam and the town of Page were true pioneers. They arrived to find Glen Canyon, a sandy, desolate hilltop with walls over 700 feet deep that had been part of the vast Navajo reservation, and an incredibly challenging way of life. The first blast necessary for site excavation at Glen Canyon Dam was triggered on October 15, 1957, when Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower pressed a key setting off the explosion from an office in Washington, DC. Almost 10 years later, construction was completed on the nation's second-highest concrete dam, harnessing the waters of the Colorado River and forever changing the history of the local area and the West. Today, over three million annual visitors enjoy the diverse and awe-inspiring landscape surrounding Page and Lake Powell.

Biografía del autor

Author Jane E. Ward, a native of Page, has a master of the arts in history from Northern Arizona University with special interest in the history of Arizona and the Colorado Plateau. Kimberly Keisling is the curator of collections at the Powell Museum, where thousands of photographs, maps, and other documents are preserved and made available to the public.

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• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 146713158X
• ISBN 13: 9781467131582
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 127