From the muddy waters of the Little Colorado River we jump into the future. Those pioneers who struggled to cross the big Colorado at Lee's Ferry and Pearce's Ferry could little imagine that within the lifetime of their children, the mighty Colorado would be tamed by one of the largest engineering feats to that date undertaken in the history of the world. Here is the construction of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam, the largest dam of its kind at the time it was built:
This is an amazing story. Be sure and watch for the comparative size of the people to the huge structures built for the dam. Although Lake Mead is not used for irrigation directly, many more dams would dot the Southwestern landscape before the pioneers established reliable water and power supplies.
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