In the late 1950s, the United States Bureau of Reclamation was authorized to construct the Curecanti Project, consisting of three dams on the Gunnison River.
It can be used as a tour, allowing the reader to stop at various points and imagine what was there before..
The book includes over 200 photographs and many stories of life in the Valley Before the reservoir.
It is to the many people who were displaced by the Reservoir this book is dedicated.
He has interviewed dozens of people who grew up in the Valley and have generously shared their photographs and stories.
Primus has spent over twenty years researching what was once Beneath Blue Mesa Reservoir.
Local historian David M.
This is the story of the loss of three towns, sixteen fishing resorts, and fifteen ranches along the scenic Gunnison River west of Gunnison, Colorado.
The largest, Blue Mesa Reservoir, was created by the construction of a 390-foot dam at the start of the Black Canyon, inundating 23 miles of the Gunnison River Valley in the 1960s.
In the late 1950s, the United States Bureau of Reclamation was authorized to construct the Curecanti Project, consisting of three dams on the Gunnison River
