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Rivers in the Desert

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 allies, friends, and a previously adoring community. Epic in scope, RIVERS IN THE DESERT chronicles the history of Los Angeles and examines the tragic fate of the man who rescued it.

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  • "Rivers in the Desert tells a mythlike American story of how one man, through vision, daring, and engineering genius, invented the Los Angeles of the future, only to fall tragically from grace due to an unforeseen disaster. The man was William Mulholland; his creation, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the tremendous waterway that transformed an arid and sparsely populated town into a thriving city of millions. In 1907, Mulholland and his army of 5,000 men began building the longest aqueduct in the Western hemisphere: 235 miles of canals, conduits, tunnels, flumes, and massive steel siphons that transport water from Owens Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to water-starved Los Angeles. Today, the aqueduct still provides 70 percent of the city's water supply."
  • "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 allies, friends, and a previously adoring community. Epic in scope, RIVERS IN THE DESERT chronicles the history of Los Angeles and examines the tragic fate of the man who rescued it."@en
  • "This mythic American story tells how William Mulholland's vision, daring, and engineering genius transformed a sparsely populated desert town into modern Los Angeles. He masterminded the construction of what was then the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, only to fall tragically from grace when the dam he built to safeguard his beloved city's water supply mysteriously collapsed, killing at least five hundred people and leaving him abandoned by his allies and the citizenry who adored him. A classical tragedy of epic scope, Rivers in the Desert is also the story of the birth and development of southern California. -- cover."@en

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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biographies"
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  • "History"
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  • "Rivers in the Desert"@en
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  • "Rivers in the desert William Mulholland and the inventing of Los Angeles"@en
  • "Rivers in the desert : William Mulholland and the inventing of Los Angeles"
  • "Rivers in the desert : William Mulholland and the inventing of Los Angeles"@en
  • "Rivers in the desert : William Mulholland and the inventing Los Angeles"@en

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