This historical film captures President Calvin Coolidge's dedication of the Coolidge Dam on the Gila River, circa 1926. The footage highlights the dam's impressive structure, close-ups of Coolidge ...

Across the canyon, backing the river up into a 25-mile-long lake, lay a $6,000,000 dam named for Citizen Coolidge. As President, he had inaugurated this great reclamation project. As a President ...