This video showcases the intricate design and construction of the Hoover Dam from 1931-1935. The Hoover Dam controls the flow of the Colorado River. Meet Jeanette Núñez, first in line to replace ...

It was two years, at a cost of more than $3 million, before the river is contained within its original channel ... opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant.

Herbert Hoover, the man behind the dam, saw it as something far more than a structure and visualized it as the answer to the problems of water supply development, flood control, and reclamation in the ...