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The United States Government, through the Bureau of Reclamation dam projects, facilitated as a by-product, the development of new western boomtown communities. As Boulder/Hoover Dam (Nevada)in 1931 and continuing with Parker Dam (Nevada), Grand Coulee Dam (Washington), Ft. Peck Dam (Montana) and Shasta Dam (California), thousands of unemployed Depression-worn laborers streamed to new construction sites in hopes of securing jobs. In previously uninhabited areas, new towns sprang up to support the social and commercial requirements of a large work force. Nearly everyone in these communities believed their jobs, the projects, and he newly created towns were temporary, representative of the unsettled times of the Great Depression. However, most of the New Deal era dam boomtowns successfully  made the economic transition from temporary boomtown to permanently established community, and large numbers of dam workers,  their spouses and families, continue to reside there. This book  investigates both the creation and social development of the last of   these twentieth century boomtown areas, Shasta Dam. It is a dramatic story of people young and old, fighting to survive the economic rigors of the Great Depression and build a new life in northern California.