They were the mountaineers of the Black Canyon, where the Hoover Dam was under construction. Their job was to remove all lose rock from the canyon walls. To do that they would dangle in bosuns chairs hundreds of feet above the Colorado River, sometimes in 80 miles an hour winds, other times in 130F heat, or in icy conditions in the winter. They wore hard hats that were invented right there, where the dam was being build. A famous statue, the subject of perhaps millions of photographs, is at the Hoover Dam visitors center, outside, for all to see. A friend of mine, Bert, now deceased, paid several hundred thousand dollars for its design and construction and erection at that site. http://www.usbr.gov

We donate this valuable space to struggling artists. This month it is an author of a series of books. Here are three of them: Nevada a Strange State, Silveropolis, The Great Lake Mead Water caper. We hope you can see your way clear to purchase one of them. The artists would be very grateful. They are available on Amazon.