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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (September 13, 1853 – January 29, 1935) was an American
Dellenbaugh died of pneumonia on January 29, 1935, and was buried in the
Papers of Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1867-1937, AZ 407
at University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections,
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh note and photograph, MSS SC 1664
at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library,
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (September 13, 1853 – January 29, 1935) was an American explorer
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some Expectation (epistemic), expectation of Discovery (observation), discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory activity is common to most organis ...
.
Biography
He was born inMcConnelsville, Ohio
McConnelsville is a village in and the county seat of Morgan County, Ohio, United States, on the east bank of the Muskingum River. Located southeast of Zanesville and northwest of Marietta, the population was 1,667 at the 2020 census.
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on September 13, 1853, 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.
From 1871 to 1873, he was artist and assistant topographer with Major Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River
The Colorado River () is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The river, the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), 5th longest in the United St ...
. He joined the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition financed by railroad magnate E. H. Harriman. He served as librarian of the American Geographical Society
The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are United States, Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows f ...
(1909–1911), and became a fellow of the American Ethnological Society. He helped to found the Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study. The club was founded in New York City in 1904 and has served as a meeting point for ex ...
in 1904.
Dellenbaugh died of pneumonia on January 29, 1935, and was buried in the Otis family
The Otis family is a Boston Brahmin family from Massachusetts best known for its involvement in early American politics.
History
The family was originally landowning farmers of Glastonbury, Somerset, the Otises went to New England during the Puri ...
plot in Ellenville, New York.
Dellenbaugh is the namesake of Dellenbaugh Butte, in Utah.
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
Further reading
*Maurer, Richard, ''The Wild Colorado The True Adventures of Fred Dellenbaugh, Age 17, on the Second Powell Expedition into the Grand Canyon''. Crown Publishers, New York, NY. 1999External links
* * *Papers of Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1867-1937, AZ 407
at University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections,
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it ...
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh note and photograph, MSS SC 1664
at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library,
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU) is a Private education, private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is the flagship university of the Church Educational System sponsore ...
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19th-century American explorers
People from McConnelsville, Ohio
1853 births
1935 deaths
John Burroughs Medal recipients
Explorers of Alaska
Historians from Ohio