| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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America's Master Dam Builder: The Engineering Genius of Frank T. Crowe. By Al M. Rocca. (New York: University Press of America, 2001. xiv + 398 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.00, paper.)

Born and educated in Maine, Frank T. Crowe became a master dam builder in the American West. First working for the Reclamation Service (Bureau of Reclamation) on the Lower Yellowstone River Project, Crowe reached the pinnacle of his career as the construction engineer of the Hoover Dam and Parker Dam for the Six Companies, and Shasta Dam for Pacific Constructors, Incorporated. 1

Among his achievements were Crowe's plans for diversion tunnels designed to move the Colorado River from its bed at the dam site. Once exposed, the sediment on the river bottom was removed to reach bedrock. Crowe also became famous for his cable-way systems for moving wet concrete to various locations at the construction site. A third major achievement was his program to educate thousands of men displaced by the Great Depression, who came to the dam sites desperate for work. These men had to be trained as carpenters, truck drivers, tunnel men, sediment movers, and cement layers. . . .

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