Beneath Blue Mesa: The Gunnison River Valley Before the Reservoir -- David M. Primus, Paperback Daniel Clowes What follows is a shattering

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Beneath Blue Mesa: The Gunnison River Valley Before the Reservoir -- David M. Primus, Paperback Daniel Clowes What follows is a shatteringIn the late 1950s, the United States Bureau of Reclamation was authorized to construct the Curecanti Project, consisting of three dams on the Gunnison River. 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. This is the story of the loss of three towns, sixteen fishing resorts, and fifteen ranches along the scenic Gunnison