They died to make the desert bloom.
The Hoover dam, currently the 35 th hydro-electric generating system.
Hoover Dam, showpiece of Boulder Canyon Project, the several million tons of concrete that made the southwest plausible, the fait accompli that was to convey, in the innocent time of its construction,the notion that mankind`s brightest promise lay in American Engineering.
(It supplies power to Nevada, Arizona and some parts of California.
The light we see in Las Vegas is because of this dam.)
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