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After amassing considerable wealth during the 1920s by building pipelines for privately held oil and gas companies, Bechtel was hired by the government to build the Hoover Dam, in Boulder, Col. From the beginning, the company's business practices were suspect...
...plague and strong-arms the populace like Nazi storm troopers. The whole disaster is portrayed as an environmental corrective to the evils unleashed by the military-scientifi c complex. (It can be no accident that the villain's name is Flagg.) The good people make their stand in bucolic Boulder, Colorado; the bad guys set up headquarters in Las Vegas. Characters periodically remind each other about the perils of remaking society -- "trying to re-create the world that damn near choked the human race to death," as one puts...
Surreal trail-building story: I was standing up to my waist in mud, trying to move a boulder, and a hiker came up to me and said, "Are your feet...
Even weirder: I was digging a hole to set a boulder in. I was wearing a head-net to keep off the flies. And someone stopped and said, "Are you digging for bees?" They were really scared...
...mining has scarred the land is to fly with Bruce Gordon, chief pilot of an environmental flying service called Lighthawk, and Roger Flynn, his interlocutor, who runs a one-man environmental law firm in Boulder called the Colorado Mining Action Project. From Denver the Cessna 210 heads south to New Mexico, then north along the spine of the Rockies above ulcerated | earth where the land has bled money -- from gold at Victor near Pikes Peak, and at Battle Mountain near San Luis, Colorado; and from molybdenum at Questa in northern New Mexico and at the vast Amax mine near Leadville...