About the book:

These are the stories of the people who built the Arizona dams, the people that the history books forgot.

Raising Arizona's Dams focuses on the lives of the laborers and families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams along the Salt, Verde, and Agua Fria rivers.

The book is illustrated with dozens of historical photographs, and the authors draw upon a wide array of sources - archaeological evidence, census counts, court documents, government records, newspapers and magazines, and oral histories - to reconstruct life in these long-forgotten camps.

With this volume, historians and archaeologists - indeed, anyone with an interest in Arizona history - will gain a new appreciation of the desert dams, their construction, and the ordinary people who carried out extraordinary tasks.

INDEX

A
AAA • Frank Abel • Simon Abel (Simone Abello) • L. Abriso • Accidents • Acculturation • Jeff Adams • African Americans • Agriculture • Agua Fria Construction Company • Agua Fria River • Ah Soo • Alcohol • American Anthropological Association (AAA) • Max Ams • Mr. Anderson • Anglos • Antiquities Act • Apache Hotel • Apaches • Apache Trail • Archaeology • Aridity: and development • Arizona Canal Company • Arizona Dam • Artifacts • Asians • Assimilation • James H. "Coal Oil Jimmy" Austin

B
Earl E. Bacon • Ellender Bacon • BAE • Baker's Hall • William Baldwin • Warren Barnett • Bartlett Dam • Curtis Coe Bean • Robert Beardsley • William Beardsley • Beardsley Canal • Boarding houses • Boom towns • Daniel Boorstein • Bottles • Orson Boyle • Mrs. Braddock • J.C. Broughton • Bullpen • Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) • Bureau of Reclamation • Postmaster Burtis • Businesses

C
Cableways • "California Joe" • Camp Dyer • Camp McDowell • Camp Pleasant • Camps • Camp Verde • Canal companies • Canals • Canning • John A.B. Caretto • Camillo C.C. Carr • Dan Carr • Elect Carrick • Ann Casey • Fred Casey • John Casey • CCC • Central Arizona Project • J.D. Chapman • Children • Chinese • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) • Charley Clapp • Climate • Colorado River • John Conchion • Conquest • Construction communities • Cottonwood Creek • Ernest Cutter • Frank Cutter

D • E
Daagodigha • Dams • Davis Dam • Deaths • Deculturation • James Deetz • Almon H. Demrick • Department of Library, Archives, and Public Records • W.G. DeVore • W. Dillon • Discrimination • Diseases • Dohaschtida (Harders) • Domestics • Drugstores • Leonica Duarte • Rafael Duarte • Dude ranches • Darrell Duppa • Dyer Diversion Dam • Scott Early • Elephant Butte Dam • Engineers • Environment • ethnic groups Ethnicity • Euro-Americans • Europeans

F • G
Fish Creek • flooding Floods • Food • Fort McDowell Reservation • Frog Tanks • Frog Tanks Dam • Frontier model • Roy Furr • M. Galez • Jack Giachetti • James Gibson • Gila County Courthouse • Gila River • Ed Gilson • Chris Gish • Glen Canyon Dam • Globe • Globe Stonecutter's Union • Goldfield • Santiago Gomez • Grenville Goodwin • Government Hill • Granite Reef Diversion Dam • Great Depression • Paul Greenhaw • George Greenwald • Pomposa Guzman

H
Ora Hansen • Gustav Harders • Archie L. Harris • Hassayampa River • Health care • Bert Henderson • Die Heutigen Apachen (Harders) • High Line Road • Charley Hill • Louis C. Hill • Tim Hinchion • Hispanics • History • Hohokam • Jim Holmes • Home Accident Insurance Company • Hoover Dam • Horse Mesa Dam • Horseshoe Dam • Horton family • Hospitals • Hotel Point • Housing • John J. Huber • Hudson Reservoir and Canal Company • Pearl Hunter • "Hydraulic empire" • Hydroelectric power

I • J • K
Immigrants • Joaquin Imperial • Indians • Injuries • Integration • Irrigation • The Irrigation Age (journal) • Irrigation Congress • Italians • Jail (at Roosevelt) • Selma Johnson • Robert "Jerry" Jones • Edward H. Kent • Kent Decree • Kerr Dam • Joseph H. Kibbey • Kibbey Decision

L
Labor, laborers • Laguna Dam • Lake Pleasant • Lake Pleasant Dam • Jim Lane • T.A. Larson • Laundresses • Lidgerwood Company cableways • Patricia Limerick • E.G. Lind • Livingston • Los Angeles Aqueduct • John Loser • Walter Lubken • Jennie Lynch

M
Mrs. D. McCauley • Mrs. Will McCauley • Alexander McGalvey • Thomas McGraw • William L. Mann • Maricopa Crossing • Maricopa Water District • Marinette • Phylis Martinelli • Maryville • Harry Matthews • Matze • Merchants • Mesa • Messianic movements • Mexican-American War • Mexicans, Mexican Americans • Minorities • Missionaries (at Roosevelt) • Mike Mojeskowitz • Monarch Bowling Alley • Morenci • Bessie Champie Morgan • Mormon Flat • Mormon Flat Dam • Mormon Trio • Laura Morris • Murders • N.J. Murphy • "Spud" Murphy • Sandra Myres

N • O
Gilbert Neal • L. Beata Neves • New Roosevelt • Newtown • John M. O'Rourke • John O'Rourke and Company • O'Rourke's Camp • R. Ortiz • Michael J. Owens

P • Q
Betty Palmer • Harriet Palmer • Ralph Fleetwood Palmer • La Paloma (Harders) • Jesse Earl Parker • Parker Dam • George Pemberton • Sallie Pemberton • Frank Pendley Sr. • Penstock tunnel (at Roosevelt Dam) • Joe Perlino • Phelps Dodge • Phoenix • Phoenix basin • Phoenix Settlement • Harry Pierson • Pimas • Carl Pleasant • Lake Pleasant • Population • John Wesley Powell • Power canal (at Roosevelt Dam) • Pratt • Prehistory • Lee Price (at Bartlett Dam) • Ray Price (at Bartlett Dam) • Robert Price • Russell Price • Prohibition • Clotilde Ricca Quarelli • Thomas Quarelli

R
Race • Rattlesnakes • Reclamation Act • Reclamation movement • Reclamation Service • Reconstruction Finance Corporation • Recreation (at Roosevelt communities) • Howard S. Reed • Rejection • Rendezvous • Restaurants (at Roosevelt) • Revitalization movements • Clotilde Ricca • Osborne Richins • Rio Verde Canal Company • Roads • Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt • Roosevelt Dam • Roosevelt Hotel • Roosevelt Lake • Roosevelt Lodge • Roosevelt Mercantile Company • Roosevelt-on-the-Hill • Roosevelt Peerless Orchestra • Roosevelt Tattler (newspaper) • Rough Riders • Bert Royce • Fred Russell

S
Saguaro Lake Guest Ranch • Salado • Saloons • Salt Lake City • Salt River • Salt River Canyon • Salt River Crossing • Salt River Project • Salt River Reservation • Salt River Valley • Salt River Valley Water Users' Association • San Carlos Reservation • Sanitation • Robert Schell • Schools • Segregation • Servants • Al Sieber • Sierra Ancha Mountains • Chester Smith • John Y.T. "Yours Truly" Smith • William Ellsworth Smythe • Social status • Spaniards • State Route 88 • Jim Steel • Ross Steel • Wallace Stegner • John Steinmetz • Stewart Mountain Dam • Stonemasonry (at Roosevelt Dam) • Sweat baths • John W. "Jack" Swilling • Swilling Irrigating and Canal Company • Sycamore • Symbolism (of reclamation movement)

T • U
Tent houses • S.S. Thompson • Tin cans • Tonto Basin • Tonto Creek • Tonto National Monument • Tortilla Flat • Tourists • Trash • J.G. Tripp • Enrico Troglia • Pomposa Guzman Troglia • Tucson • Frederick Jackson Turner • Henry Turner • Juliana Ultreras • Unionization • U.S. Geological Survey • U.S. Reclamation Service • John Urquehart

V • W • Y
Mills Van Wagenen • Verde Irrigation and Power District • Verde River • Donald Waddell • Waddell Dam • Wages • Charles Walcott • Walnut Creek Dam • Walnut Grove Water Storage Company • Mr. Wasserman • Water rights • A. Cone Webb • M. C. Webb • Walter Prescott Webb • Wheatfields • Whites • Wickiups • Pete Wilson • Women • Work • Donald Worster • Yaalahn (Harders) • Yavapais • Sam Yesterday