Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh photographed at the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1907.

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1853–1935) was an American explorer.

Biography

He was born in McConnelsville, Ohio and was educated in the United States and in Europe. An explorer of the American West at an early age, he was a member of an expedition that discovered the last unknown river in the United States, the Escalante River and the previously undiscovered Henry Mountains.[1]

From 1871 to 1873, he was artist and assistant topographer with Major Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River. He joined the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition financed by railroad magnate E. H. Harriman. He served as librarian of the American Geographical Society (1909–1911), and became a fellow of the American Ethnological Society. He helped to found the Explorers Club in 1904.

Painting of Zion Canyon, by Dellenbaugh, 1903

A mount in Arizona was named Dellenbaugh.[2]

Publications

  • The North Americans of Yesterday (1900)
  • The Romance of the Colorado River (1902; third edition, 1909)
  • Breaking the Wilderness (1905)
  • In the Amazon Jungle (1908); by Algot Lange (Introduction by Dellenbaugh)
  • A Canyon Voyage (1908; second edition, 1926)
  • Frémont and '49 (1913; second edition, 1914)
  • George Armstrong Custer (1917)

References

  1. ↑ "America's Outback: Southern Utah". The New York Times. 12 April 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2010. 
  2. ↑ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 103. 

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