By F. S. DELLENBAUGH
The North-Americans of Yesterday
A Comparative Study of North-American Indian Life, Customs, and Products, on the Theory of the Ethnic Unity of the Race. 8?. Fully illustrated. net, $4.00
The Romance of the Colorado River
A Complete Account of the Discovery and of the Explorations from 1540 to the Present Time, with Particular Reference to the Two Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons.
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Breaking the Wilderness
The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, from the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca to the First Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, with Particular Account of the Exploits of Trappers and Traders.
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A Canyon Voyage
The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land in the Years 1871 and 1872.
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[Illustration: The Grand Canyon
Looking south from the Kaibab Plateau, North Rim, near the head of Bright Angel Creek, the canyon of which is seen in the foreground. The San Francisco Mountains are in the distance. On the South Rim to the right, out of the picture, is the location of the Hotel Tovar. The width of the canyon at the top in this region is about twelve miles, with a depth of near 6000 feet on the north side, and over 5000 on the south. Total length, including Marble Canyon division, 283 miles.
Sketch made in colour on the spot by F. S. Dellenbaugh, June 4, 1903.]
A Canyon Voyage
The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
By
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh Artist and Assistant Topographer of the Expedition
"Come on, sir; here's the place. Stand still. How fearful And dizzy 't is to cast one's eyes so low!" _King Lear._
With Fifty Illustrations
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1908
Copyright, 1908 by FREDERICK S. DELLENBAUGH
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TO H. O. D. MY COMPANION ON THE VOYAGE OF LIFE.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Canyon Voyage by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
- 2: This was approximately correct as far as Kanab Canyon
- 3: But also the manuscript diary of Professor Thompson
- 4: And Pacific Railway accomplished through the canyons
- 5: The Tale of a Mysterious Light How
- 6: Including Marble Canyon division
- 7: Unidentified skeleton found April
- 8: Tom became educated and no longer looked like an Indian
- 9: Sentinel Rock about 300 feet high
- 10: South side near Bright Angel Creek
- 11: From this range southward to the Uinta Mountains
- 12: Unidentified skeleton found April 1906 by C
- 13: These shanties were mansions left over
- 14: By way of the Uinta Indian Agency
- 15: The Second Powell Expedition was ready to start
- 16: And the Canonita waited for their return
- 17: Though I was not a great smoker
- 18: This was the lack of iron on the keels
- 19: The deer were speedily dressed
- 20: A mercurial barometer was read three times a day
- 21: Illustration Horseshoe Canyon
- 22: Kingfisher Canyon like its two predecessors was short
- 23: But the Canonita following ran too far down
- 24: Could climb to the top of the cliff to get the topography
- 25: A brilliant moon hung over the canyon
- 26: And which we rechristened Red Canyon Park
- 27: With low banks covered with cottonwood groves
- 28: Lodore was said to have an even greater declivity
- 29: Illustration The Head of the Canyon of Lodore
- 30: All being tranquil except the foaming rapid
- 31: Illustration Canyon of Lodore
- 32: The Major signalled vigorously with his hat
- 33: And as we were to stop for the season at the Paria
- 34: The cliffs had now reached an altitude of at least 2500 feet
- 35: Illustration Canyon of Lodore Dunn's Cliff
- 36: Conveyed the impression of being almost vertical
- 37: Mouth of Yampa River in Foreground
- 38: When the Yampa expedition had gone
- 39: Which compared favourably with those of Andy himself
- 40: About five o'clock the Yampa explorers came
- 41: Illustration Whirlpool Canyon
- 42: In order that Beaman might get some views
- 43: But Beaman and Clem feared the crag might break off with me
- 44: Beaman got a very good picture here
- 45: On the west it was the Uinta Utes who
- 46: In connection with the light episode and the gunshot
- 47: Here was his wickiup made of a few cottonwood boughs
- 48: Which we thought must be the Uinta
- 49: And Beaman left for the Agency
- 50: The Uinta he called Rio de San Cosme
- 51: Through Gray Canyon to the Rendezvous
- 52: In the wars you'll more pleasure dis cov er
- 53: And his stentorian shout through the trumpet Tirtaan Aigles
- 54: No advance was made but instead Prof
- 55: The opposite amphitheatre was perhaps one thousand feet high
- 56: But in the second the Nell struck a sunken rock
- 57: After another half mile a small rapid appeared
- 58: After running two more rapids Prof
- 59: The first thing we then did was to run a very shallow rapid
- 60: Accompanied by Steward and Clem
- 61: Beaman wanted to photograph us in the midst of our work
- 62: And there were seams of coal and lignite in places
- 63: Just inside the mouth of the canyon on the left
- 64: Had made the passage of Red Canyon
- 65: He forded at El Vado his first time in 1858
- 66: And Hamblin on the middle deck of another
- 67: And the Hamblins camped with them for the night
- 68: Sweet Evelina which everybody sang
- 69: Having traced the San Rafael for twenty five miles
- 70: So that some of the cascades fell clear without a break
- 71: Helping Beaman down with his heavy boxes
- 72: As well as to enable Beaman to take some views he desired
- 73: The bend was named by Beaman Bonito
- 74: Stewed dried apples were granted about once a week
- 75: Bearing several hackberry trees
- 76: The Shinumos had numerous dwellings all through this country
- 77: We knew Cataract Canyon was rough
- 78: I had carried the canteen all the time
- 79: At the outset our boat struck on a concealed rock
- 80: Lifting the boats and sliding them on driftwood skids
- 81: In which distance there were six rapids
- 82: While Beaman and Clem went up Gypsum Canyon
- 83: They would climb out at Millecrag Bend
- 84: We soon dashed through a small rough rapid
- 85: A large canyon entered from the left
- 86: For Cataract and Narrow canyons were behind
- 87: The Canonita was chosen and the day after our arrival
- 88: I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie
- 89: And saw little but naked orange sandstone in rounded hills
- 90: We then chiefly called it Mount Seneca Howland
- 91: And nothing but a buzzum pin would he have
- 92: Having left Kanab early in September they had no late news
- 93: The party followed the Shinumo trail
- 94: Loose unbleached cotton shirts
- 95: The Navajos did not understand the words
- 96: While behind we saw Navajo Mountain and others
- 97: Would have to walk out to Kanab and obtain relief
- 98: The Navajos were rather afraid of the boats
- 99: It led us up the valley of the Paria
- 100: Did not approve of the lasso method
- 101: So Steward and Andy changed off
- 102: Cedars and pinons now grew about us
- 103: Clem also felt under the weather
- 104: And on the 21st he returned to Kanab
- 105: The Major himself was absent at Kanab
- 106: Though Patnish was so much feared
- 107: Arriving at the crossing of the Colorado Tuba was sad
- 108: Powell had been familiar with camp life
- 109: Supplied butter and milk from Kanab
- 110: According to the Mormon custom
- 111: With Mac started across the Kaibab by the trail
- 112: Shu ra ga va Montee ree ai ma
- 113: And was temporarily settled in Kanab
- 114: Back to Kanab for more rations
- 115: It seemed to be saying very deliberately poo poo
- 116: A tributary of the Kanab Canyon
- 117: Climbed to the summit of Mount Trumbull
- 118: Covered with fragments of lava
- 119: Forming the western boundary of the Uinkaret Plateau
- 120: Then we joined Jack and Fennemore
- 121: And then we made our way to Kanab again
- 122: Fennemore had started with them
- 123: Leaving the Paria the following day where it branches
- 124: Crossing three or four swift tributaries
- 125: Beautiful groves of pines and aspens
- 126: White sandstone almost as steep as a horse could stand on
- 127: Their language and appearance showed them to be Utes
- 128: Persisting against the objection of Dodds
- 129: And climbed the first mountain now Mt
- 130: While Fennemore sat on the middle deck
- 131: Had reached Kanab with no trouble of any kind
- 132: The trail across the Kaibab was not often travelled
- 133: The Canonita was to have Prof
- 134: And while we were doing this our late fellow voyageur Beaman
- 135: By making the portage and had no trouble of any kind
- 136: While this was a grey rock the entire effect of the canyon
- 137: With terrific impetus we sped into the seething
- 138: Illustration Canyon of the Little Colorado
- 139: Enabling Andy to go back to help bring down the Canonita
- 140: Illustration The Grand Canyon
- 141: Which turned the Canonita completely around
- 142: The next thing was to get around into the alcove
- 143: I collected quite an armful of half dead mesquite
- 144: Two of these rapids were portages on the former trip
- 145: Our food supply was composed partly of jerked beef
- 146: The Canonita was nowhere to be seen
- 147: The Colorado now being muddier than ever
- 148: The surface inclining to the vortex
- 149: A morning was spent at Tapeats Creek for examinations
- 150: Where the Howlands and Dunn had left the first party
- 151: We prepared to leave for Kanab
- 152: We continued straight up Kanab Canyon
- 153: Which had developed the pain coming up the Kanab Canyon
- 154: The young chief of the Kaibab band
- 155: Old Patnish came in occasionally
- 156: Uinkaret whom Chuar introduced as Teemaroomtekai
- 157: A pocket they called Tiravu Picavu or Pocket of the Plain
- 158: Everywhere near was the desert of basalt
- 159: I climbed four more cinder cones
- 160: Having had a successful tour through the Shewits region
- 161: While on Christmas Day Riley prepared a special feast
- 162: At the gulch we deemed the correct one
- 163: Asa on the fire burning snugly in the great chimney
- 164: Leaving Panguitch we rode on down the Sevier
- 165: Footnote 36 Some men from Kanab afterwards came in
- 166: Canonita and Dean abandoned
- 167: Letters from Clement Powell to
- 168: Wonsits Valley to Gunnison Crossing
- 169: River named by Professor Thompson
- 170: Circumtours the Marble and Grand canyons
- 171: 44Henry Mountains Unknown Mts
- 172: Dellenbaugh to the Buffalo Express
- 173: 208Mount Seneca Howland Navajo Mt
- 174: 153Rudder useless on the Colorado
- 175: Goes with Powell to Grand Canyon
- 176: 61Ute Crossing of Colorado in Uinkaret region
- 177: Little Zion or Mookoontoweap Valley of