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

explorer Exploration refers to the historical practice of discovering remote lands. It is studied by geographers and historians. Two major eras of exploration occurred in human history: one of convergence, and one of divergence. The first, covering most ...

Biography

He was born in

McConnelsville, Ohio McConnelsville is a village in Morgan County, Ohio, United States located 21 miles southeast of Zanesville and 26 miles northwest of Marietta. The population was 1,784 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Morgan County. As of October ...

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 The Escalante River is a tributary of the Colorado River. It is formed by the confluence of Upper Valley and Birch Creeks near the town of Escalante in south-central Utah, and from there flows southeast for approximately before joining Lake Po ...

and the previously undiscovered

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. From 1871 to 1873, he was artist and assistant topographer with Major Powell's second expedition down the

Colorado River The Colorado River ( es, Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The river drains an expansive, arid drainage basin, watershed that encompasses parts of ...

. He joined the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition financed by railroad magnate

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. He served as librarian of the

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(1909–1911), and became a fellow of the

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. 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 fo ...

in 1904.

1903 painting of Zion Canyon by Dellenbaugh

Dellenbaugh died of pneumonia on January 29, 1935, and was buried in the

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plot in

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. Dellenbaugh is the namesake of

Dellenbaugh Butte Dellenbaugh Butte is a summit in Grand County of the U.S. state of Utah. Dellenbaugh Butte is the 2348th highest summit in the state of Utah. Description Dellenbaugh Butte has the name of Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1853–1935), an explorer. ...

, 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)

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Papers of Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1867-1937, AZ 407
at

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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh note and photograph, MSS SC 1664
at L. Tom Perry Special Collections,

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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

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