America's Master Dam Builder: The Engineering Genius of Frank T. Crowe

by Al M. Rocca

Frank T. Crowe joined the newly formed United States Reclamation Service in 1905 and headed West to work on numerous irrigation projects designed to 'water the West.' This biography of Crowe traces Crowes career from work on the Yellowstone Project up through the building of mighty Hoover and Shasta Dams.

414 pages, Paperback

First published December 29, 2001

About the author

I am currently serving as Professor Emeritus at Simpson University in Redding, California. I teach a course on Curriculum & Instruction for Secondary Teaching Candidates. I have earned an MA in geography and Phd in History. My teaching also includes United States history and world geography. As you can see from my list of books, I have written and published in both the adult non-fiction and children's historical fiction.

I have currently finished a new book titled, Endangered Species: Case #2 Sea Otter Rescue. The book takes place in and around the Monterey Aquarium and looks at the hardships faced sea otters and how aquarium efforts have helped mitigate these dangers.

I also have a major new book that is in its final stages. This book, Christopher Columbus, Pre-1492: The Birth of a Transatlantic Voyage will explain how Columbus's early voyages in the Mediterranean Sea and the Eastern Atlantic Ocean provided an expanding geographic understanding that provided him the confidence to conceive a transatlantic voyage to the Indies--changing the world.