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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (September 13, 1853 – January 29, 1935) was an American explorer.


Biography

He was born in McConnelsville, Ohio 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
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. 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. Dellenbaugh died of pneumonia on January 29, 1935, and was buried in the
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. 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. 1999


External links

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Papers of Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1867-1937, AZ 407
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel American explorers People from McConnelsville, Ohio 1853 births 1935 deaths John Burroughs Medal recipients Explorers of Alaska Historians from Ohio