Frank Crowe

Frank Crowe began working with the Bureau of Reclamation in 1904 as a surveyor. He spent the next 20 years working on various projects throughout the West. Many of the projects he worked on were dams. But the jewel in the crown, for Crowe, was the Dam on the Colorado River. In 1921, he boasted to his father that he would build Boulder Dam. Crowe admitted later in life that he "was wild to build this Dam." For a man who had spent his life in the river bottoms, the Boulder Dam was the pinnacle in his career.