Even after 81 years, stubborn myths still cling to the colossal construction effort that built Hoover Dam ... first casualties of the project. Then on Dec. 20, 1935, 14 years later to the day ...

The testimony of the loyal workers who followed him from construction job to construction job indicated that he was true to his word. Saul “Red” Wixson, a worker on the Hoover Dam project ...

The start of construction on Hoover in 1930 held the ... Vegas complained that none of the first 1,000 workers placed on Six Companies’ payroll for the dam project were African American.