when thousands of men flocked to the Hoover Dam project to get hard-to-come-by work during the Great Depression. Their families would sometimes follow them to the scorching Mojave Desert ...

It’s a summer morning in the Mojave Desert ... the ghosts of workers who toiled in the desert heat to build Hoover Dam. Earlier this year, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell designated this ...

Seekers of all stripes have been coming to Giant Rock, in the Mojave Desert just north of Landers ... California and bomb the power plant at Hoover Dam and thus cripple the airplane manufacturing ...

In the eastern Mojave Desert, this guest lodge is rarely ... It’s a relic of the Hoover Dam’s construction — at that time the largest public works project in U.S. history.

Read on to discover the best Hoover Dam tours from Las Vegas ... Along your drive to the dam, you'll learn about the Mojave Desert, as well as early mining in the area and housing for dam workers.

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 ...

A caption reads, in part: "A wind sock, fluttering from a huge whitewashed rock overlooking the Mojave Desert near Twenty-nine Palms, marks the location of an emergency landing field known as ...