Transcript for Hoover Dam Construction, segment 17 of 17


And so Boulder Dam stands today, a modern colossus shouldering the rock-ribbed walls of Black Canyon, stemming and controlling the floods and bending the will of a hitherto ungovernable stream, the Colorado River, to perform the fruitful tasks of a civilization rapidly invading the limits of its last frontier.

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