For citizens shaken by the tumultuous effects of the Great Depression, the Hoover Dam ... in a dry and barren spot called Ragtown. Ila Clements-Davey, the daughter of a dam worker, recalls the ...

Hoover Dam, in addition to being, at the time, the largest dam the world had ever seen, was conceived to trumpet man’s dominance over the forces of nature. In envisioning the architectural ...