Power From the Mountains - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1930401396 ISBN 13: 9781930401396

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The Eastwood/Huntington story has one foot in the past and the other in the halls of Enron Corporation. It played out during the rising powers of the Robber Barons in the east and the California Big Four. The story is threaded through the whole cloth of history and told through the eyes of John Eastwood, a man of titanic ability who made his mark by creating the world's largest hydroelectric project in a part of the Sierra Nevada called Big Creek. As the driving force behind the dream, Eastwood had to convince financier Henry Huntington that the massive project was feasible. Huntington was a man who demanded absolute control of everything he touched which created conflict with the tenacious Eastwood. The Big Creek Project is not well known today, although at the time it rivaled the Panama Canal in scope, difficulty and ingenuity.

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Barbara Wolcott writes for commercial technology market and their correspondent trade publications. Her story about off-track betting, written in a Damon Runyon parody, won First Place for both the California Publishers Association Award and the National Newspapers Association. Her three-part feature about the commercial fishing crisis on the west coast was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2001. Wolcott writes about science and how it impacts people. Her book on the massive Avila Beach cleanup titled David, Goliath and the Beach Cleaning Machine was published by Capital Books International in June 2003.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1930401396
• ISBN 13: 9781930401396
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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