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Set in the high desert about a half-hour south-east of the Las Vegas Strip, Boulder City was purpose-built in 1931 as the construction camp for the workers who built nearby Hoover Dam. Unlike the cities that grew up around it, the town was planned from the start by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as a model federal community, with broad streets, generous green parks and a strict moral code that famously banned gambling within the city limits, a prohibition that survives in modified form ...