| Roosevelt Dam Contributor(s): Garcia, Kathleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738558613 ISBN-13: 9780738558615 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: At 5: 48 p.m., on March 18, 1911, former president Theodore Roosevelt pushed the button allowing the first waters to be released from the worldas highest masonry dam. The dam was one of the first projects authorized under the Newland Reclamation Act of 1902. The act provided federal money for state reclamation projects and established the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which, between 1902 and 1907, began 30 projects within 11 western states. The confident promoters of the Roosevelt Dam began developing the project at the confluence of Tonto Creek and the Salt River five months before receiving formal approval by the newly established bureau in 1903. As a result of a 1992 expansion and renovation project, todayas dam stands 357 feet high and bears little resemblance to the dam dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| Dewey: 979.1 |
| LCCN: 2008932142 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.5" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Arizona |
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| Publisher Description: At 5:48 p.m., on March 18, 1911, former president Theodore Roosevelt pushed the button allowing the first waters to be released from the world s highest masonry dam. The dam was one of the first projects authorized under the Newland Reclamation Act of 1902. The act provided federal money for state reclamation projects and established the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which, between 1902 and 1907, began 30 projects within 11 western states. The confident promoters of the Roosevelt Dam began developing the project at the confluence of Tonto Creek and the Salt River five months before receiving formal approval by the newly established bureau in 1903. As a result of a 1992 expansion and renovation project, today s dam stands 357 feet high and bears little resemblance to the dam dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt." |
Contributor Bio(s): Garcia, Kathleen: - Author Kathleen Garcia holds a master s degree in Southwest and Arizona history from Arizona State University. For more than 20 years, Garcia worked at the Phoenix Public Library providing assistance for the Arizona Room Collection and helped launch Arizona Images (www.azhistoricalimages.org), which digitized the library s James H. McClintock Collection from the Phoenix Museum of History s collections. Photographs from James H. McClintock Collection, as well as from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, comprise the majority of this book. |