A canyon voyage
Subtitle: the story of John Wesley Powell and the charting of the Grand Canyon
By: Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Contributors: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781510724495
Subjects: Travel; Discovery and exploration
Description: In 1871, seventeen-year-old Frederick Dellenbaugh began a great adventure when he joined Major John Wesley Powell and a crew of scientists on Powell's second exploration trip down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon. These were the last great stretches of land and river still unknown in the continental United States. Powell, Dellenbaugh, and the rest of the group spent years exploring the Grand Canyon country, noting its geologic features, and observing its Native American inhabitants. A Canyon Voyage chronicles this historic expedition and provides a detailed account of Powell and Dellenbaugh's historic journey. Through his account, the reader can pass through the rapid currents of the Green and Colorado rivers, climb the crags of the Grand Canyon, trade with the original Native American inhabitants of the Southwest, and witness the picturesque flora and fauna of the area.
Notes: Includes index.

Reprint of the 1908 original: 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 ... with fifty illustrations. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908.

Practically a second volume of the author's "Romance of the Colorado river". cf. Pref. The only detailed account of the second descent of the Colorado river under the leadership of J.W. Powell. The narrative of the first Expedition of 1869 was published by the Smithsonian institution in 1875 in a report issued under title: Exploration of the Colorado river of the West and its tributaries.