Workers service the cutting head on one of four massive dredges during construction of the Fort Peck Dam, a six-year-long Public Works Administration project that brought a badly needed economic ...

Construction on the Fort Peck Dam began in 1933 and finished in 1940, employing 40,000 to 50,000 workers from across the state and country. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Chart the history and construction of Fort Peck Dam, which tamed the mighty Missouri. Thousands of men and their families faced some of the toughest, and most rewarding times in their lives, to ...

When the famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White made her iconic 1936 Life magazine cover shot of the still-under-construction spillway at Fort Peck Dam – the very first cover of the magazine ...

The Fort Peck Dam spillway had only been used in four years prior to 2011’s historic high water, which set a record.

Sylvia Smith Stugelmeyer was born in the shadow of the Fort Peck Dam while it was still under construction.

Fort Peck Dam was completed in 1940 after seven years of construction. It is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved spending more than $42.9 million to repair damages to Fort Peck Dam after the record 2011 flooding that broke levees and ...

1,700 miles from the Missouri River’s mouth, Fort Peck Dam and its powerhouses stand as a testament to engineering prowess. Construction was authorized by President Roosevelt on Oct. 24, 1933 ...

The result, the Montana PBS documentary “Fort Peck Dam,” brings all the elements of this fascinating story together with interviews with folks who were there. “Fort Peck Dam” will be shown ...

The result, the Montana PBS documentary “Fort Peck Dam,” brings all the elements of this fascinating story together with interviews with folks who were there.