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Hoover Dam

October 18, 2026

John Hopkins (0:02)

It is late November, 1932, a cool day in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Nevada and Arizona. Just upstream, the water has been temporarily diverted through gigantic man-made tunnels to allow a dam to be constructed here.

700 feet above the ground, 28-year-old Oliver Cowan hangs precariously against the canyon's rocky face, whistling cheerfully to himself. His job here is to strip away the loose rock and expose the dense, durable surface beneath against which the dam can be built. All that keeps him from plummeting earthwards is a…

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