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With a New Grant, Professor Aims to Catalog ‘Drowned Towns’ of the American West

Small town, dirt road, gas station, cars, mountains, trees.
Detroit, Oregon: A view from the 1930s, a couple of decades before the town was razed for the construction of Detroit Dam. Photo provided by Bob Reinhardt.

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May 18, 2020 by Boise State University

Dr. Bob H. Reinhardt, Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University, has presented at the Osher Institute on topics including smallpox eradication and the history of the American West. With a new grant from The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Dr. Reinhardt is working to recover the lost histories of towns and communities sent underwater by hydroelectric and irrigation dams from 1920 to 1970.

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