Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1853–1935) was an American explorer, born in McConnelsville, Ohio. He 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 Henrys mountain range.[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 expedition to Alaska and Siberia 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. His writings include:

• The North Americans of Yesterday (1900)
• The Romance of the Colorado River (1902; third edition, 1909)
• Breaking the Wilderness (1905)
• A Canyon Voyage (1908)
• Frémont and '49 (1913; second edition, 1914)

External links

• Works by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh at Project Gutenberg

A biography of Fred Dellenbaugh was published as follows: Maurer, Richard 1999 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. http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/travel/12outback.html?em=&pagewanted=all