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Building the Ultimate Dam
Offers compelling insight into how designer Eastwood battled government bureaucrats, corporate patrons, and fellow hydraulic engineers to build seventeen dams in the western U.S. during the early twentieth century based on his innovative multiple-arch design. Reprint.
The History of Large Federal Dams
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river’s natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. In partic...
The Ancestors and Descendants of Trond Nilsen and Maren Jonsdatter, who Came from Bamble to Manitowoc
Trond Nilsen, son of Nils Trondsen and Stine Andrea Torsdatter, was born 13 May 1812. He married Maren Jonsdatter (1809-1892), daughter of Jon Andersen and Kristine Isaksdatter 21 December 1838. They had eight children. They emigrated from Bamble, Telemark, Norway to Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
James Johnson and Harriet Emmeline Lamb
James Johnson was born 20 November 1859 in Brigham City, Box Elder Co., Utah. He was the son of Jens Jorgensen and Marie Larson. James married Harriet Emaline Lamb 29 November 1880 in the LDS Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the parents of ten children. James died 18 October 1940 in Preston, Idaho. Descendants lived primarily in Utah, Idaho, California and elsewhere.
The Stolen Angel
#1 internationally bestselling author Sara Blaedel returns with a captivating suspense novel: Detective Louise Rick encounters her most troubling case yet as she goes up against an extremely wealthy-but psychologically twisted-sociopath targeting vulnerable young women. The Stolen Angel When the granddaughter of the wealthy Sachs-Smith family is kidnapped, Louise's skills as a trained negotiator are put to work. She is tasked with helping the desperate mother negotiate what soon turns into a life-or-death situation. The kidnappers will only exchange the deathly ill little girl for an infamous stained glass panel--known as the Angel of Death--that has been in the family for generations. But there's a problem... the Angel, worth millions, was recently stolen from the family home. Racing against the clock as she matches wits with a criminal mastermind, Louise will be taken to the depths of human depravity. She's about to learn the hard way that money can buy absolutely anything. But will she be able to find the little girl before her time runs out? Sara Blaedel's latest suspenseful and emotionally powerful thriller will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.
