Major John Wesley Powell makes the first recorded trip through the Grand Canyon and down the length of the Colorado River ... the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant.

A visit to the Hoover ... of the dam and the Colorado River, making it the perfect spot to capture that iconic photo. Next, ...

Walkers can step back into Hoover ... River Basin regional headquarters, a Spanish-style building completed in 1932 to manage the rise of Hoover Dam in Black Canyon. Nowadays, walkers can get a ...

A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada ... and eat outdoors ...

we’re allowed to venture down one. There’s a window, offering an extraordinary view of the river from inside the dam wall. Going inside Hoover Dam should be about engineering greatness.

Major projects in the West included Shasta Dam in California, Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, the nation's first ... After the Supreme Court struck this down, the Wagner Act (National Labor ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...