America's Master Dam Builder: The Engineering Genius of Frank T. Crowe - Softcover

Rocca Ph.D., Al M; Rocca, Al M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761821449 ISBN 13: 9780761821441

Publisher: University Press of America, 2001

Synopsis

America's Master Dam Builder is a sweeping biographical epic of Frank T. Crowe. Author Al M. Rocca presents a fascinating story that covers the engineering challenges and triumphs Crowe encountered, from his earliest days with the United States Reclamation Service to his phenomenal conquests of Hoover, Parker and Shasta Dams. Rocca shows how one man rose to the top of the engineering world and supplied the drive and innovation that permitted the construction of large concrete dams, dams of unprecedented size, dams that would transform the American West.

About this title

About the Author:

Al M. Rocca is Professor of Education and History, Simpson College, Redding, California.

Review:

"I think you've got a winner in your biography of Crowe." -- Dennis McBride, co-author of Building Hoover Dam

"The successful engineer has to be creative and you have done a great job in showing Crowe's creativity." -- Chet Rock, Associate Dean of Engineering, Univ. of Maine

"This is a soundly researched book...I feel this is an important addition to the literature of the West." -- Brit Storey, Senior Historian, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761821449
• ISBN 13: 9780761821441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 399