Drowned Towns in the Cold War West: Small Communities and Federal Water Projects

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Abstract

During the 1940s and 1950s, small towns throughout the West moved or disappeared to make way for federal dams and reservoirs. The stories of Hover, Washington, and Detroit, Oregon, reveal how the Cold War’s culture of anxiety and affluence shaped the experiences and responses of such communities to inundation and displacement.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalThe Western Historical Quarterly
Volume42
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

EGS Disciplines

  • History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • United States History

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