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“Modern Marvel” and Reno’s Big Gamble

• Hoover Dam (the Boulder Canyon Project) was authorized in 1929, begun, in 1931, and completed in 1935.
• What attitude toward nature do you detect in the comments of President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Interior Ickes?
• How did the completion of the dam change the American Southwest?
• When the power and water created and accumulated by the dam were first allocated, how much priority did Las Vegas have? Why would this change?
• In Reno’s Big Gamble, Alicia Barber describes how Reno made a conscious decision in the Twenties to become “The Biggest Little City in the World.”
• Can you see a conflict between “small town Reno” and “the biggest little city in the world” in the writings of Walter Van Tilburg Clark mentioned in the prelude?
• Do you consider the policies and philosophies of Mayor Edwin Roberts to be libertarian or simply opportunistic?