The Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum tells the story of the Boulder Canyon Project as it was experienced by the men and women who braved the desolation of the Southern Nevada desert to build Hoover Dam and Boulder City.

The Museum's three-dimensional, interactive displays and exhibits describe the great social and economic forces surrounding the 1929 Stock Market Crash and Depression that drove thousands of unemployed citizens from their homes into the isolation of the Nevada desert where the Boulder Canyon Project was one of the few places in the United States where men could find work.

How did they live? How did these people survive 120-degree heat in the summer and below-freezing temperatures in the winter?

How did they care for their children? How did they get back and forth to work? How much money did they earn in Boulder City, a town completely controlled by the federal government? What did their homes look like? What happened if workmen were injured or killed on the job?

Visit the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum to find out ...

Canyon Ghosts

In 1997 the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association commissioned Austine Wood-Comarow to create a limited edition of 50 polages depicting construction of Hoover Dam. Until Association member Steve Cottrell suggested this fund raising endeavor and named the piece Austine created, she had never included Hoover Dam in her artwork.

In Canyon Ghosts high-scalers are working on the walls of Black Canyon while other workmen are being lowered to the canyon floor. In the distance, a steam locomotive chugs into the construction site. This scene slowly dissolves into another image revealing the completed dam with Lake Mead settled behind it and the Colorado River meandering into the foreground.

Austine Wood's Ghost Canyon Polage.
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