My siblings and I decided to gather in Las Vegas to celebrate our sister’s 70th birthday. It was a most enjoyable family reunion, especially since all of ...

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 ...

Hoover Dam was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. 5,000 working men and their families came to live in the Nevada desert, all in search of a paycheck. The work was extremely ...

Six Companies, the outfit building the dam, had agreed to a rigid government deadline—two and a half years to divert ... laws issued by the States of Nevada and Arizona. Significantly, the ...