Ralph Luther Criswell
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Ralph Luther Criswell was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th century. He then became a special agent, or lobbyist, for the Colorado River Project that brought wat
Chriswell in 1927
Hoover Dam
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The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the boundary between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Gr
Ralph Luther Criswell
…17, 1947) was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th century. He then became a special agent, or lobbyist, for the Colorado River Project that brought water to Southern California. Criswell was born on October 12, 1861, in Rushville, Illinois, to Edmund L. Criswell and the former Susan…
2017 Aerial view Hoover Dam 4774
River view of the future dam site, c. 1904
Sketch of the proposed dam site and reservoir, c. 1921
Workers on a "Jumbo Rig"; used for drilling the Hoover Dam's tunnels