Grand Coulee Dam

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Looking on to the Grand Coulee Dam from downstream.

Courtesy of The Northwest Room at the Spokane Public Library

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By Erin Pulley
Larger than all of the Pyramids of Giza put together, this mammoth concrete structure began as a dream in a small arid Central Washington farm town. In 1918, Billy Clapp, a lawyer in Ephrata, explained to Wenatchee Daily World editor Rufus Woods,…