Rivers in the Desert William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

Name: Rivers in the Desert William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9781497638785

ISBN-10: 149763878X

ISBN-13: 9781497638785

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Authors: Margaret Leslie Davis

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Rivers in the Desert is the quintessential American story. It follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. Davis chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame, followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed to safeguard the water supply. The disaster, which killed at least five hundred people, caused his repudiation by…

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List price: $24.99
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date: 8/19/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long
Language: English

Margaret Leslie Davisis the award-winning author ofThe Culture Broker,Rivers in the Desert, and theLos Angeles TimesbestsellerDark Side of Fortune. She lives in Los Angeles.