If you're deciding on things to do in Las Vegas, you may be considering a day trip to the Hoover Dam – the National Historic Landmark that diverts water from the Colorado River to various ...

Los Angeles has long funneled masses of tourists to Las Vegas, providing much of the fuel for the casino-heavy economy here.

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...

Planning a trip to Las Vegas and looking to add a notable side trip to your itinerary? A visit to the Hoover Dam is just the ...

when he visited Las Vegas for about an hour, the first sitting president to make a speech there (President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited in 1935, but spoke to dedicate Hoover Dam outside Boulder ...

Those working on the construction of Hoover Dam had to contend with other factors ... the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), had been dispatched to Las Vegas to recruit members and stir ...

The Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) project looked like a life ... In May 1931, the Colored Citizens Labor and Protective Association of Las Vegas complained that none of the first 1,000 workers placed ...

A 25-year-old woman who was an apparent heiress to the Yellow Pages fortune was shot to death in Arizona not far from Hoover Dam in ... who had lived in an east Las Vegas apartment for a short ...