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

Bob H. Reinhardt

doi:10.2307/westhistquar.42.2.0149

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

Bob H. Reinhardt

University of California at Davis

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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 language	American English
Journal	The Western Historical Quarterly
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/westhistquar.42.2.0149
State	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes

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