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This edition features
• 50 illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
A River Entrapped — Acquaintance not Desired — Ives Explores the Lower Reaches — Powell the Conqueror — Reason for a Second Descent — Congressional Appropriation — Preparation — The Three Boats — The Mighty Wilderness — Ready for the Start
CHAPTER II
Into the Wilderness — The Order of Sailing — Tobacco for the Indians Comes Handy — A Lone Fisherman and Some Trappers — Jack Catches Strange Fish — The Snow-clad Uintas in View — A Larder Full of Venison — Entrance into Flaming Gorge
CHAPTER III
The First Rapid — Horseshoe and Kingfisher Canyons — A Rough Entrance into Red Canyon — Capsize of the Nell — The Grave of a Bold Navigator — Discovery of a White Man's Camp — Good-bye to Frank — At the Gate of Lodore
CHAPTER IV
Locked in the Chasm of Lodore — Rapids with Railway Speed — A Treacherous Approach to Falls of Disaster — Numerous Loadings and Unloadings — Over the Rocks with Cargoes — Library Increased by Putnam's Magazine — Triplet Falls and Hell's Half Mile — Fire in Camp — Exit from Turmoil to Peace
CHAPTER V
A Remarkable Echo — Up the Canyon of the Yampa — Steward and Clem Try a Moonlight Swim — Whirlpool Canyon and Mountain Sheep — A Grand Fourth-of-July Dinner — A Rainbow-Coloured Valley — The Major Proceeds in Advance — A Split Mountain with Rapids a Plenty — Enter a Big Valley at Last
CHAPTER VI
A Lookout for Redskins — The River a Sluggard — A Gunshot! — Someone Comes! — The Tale of a Mysterious Light — How, How! from Douglas Boy — At the Mouth of the Uinta — A Tramp to Goblin City and a Trip down White River on a Raft — A Waggon-load of Supplies from Salt Lake by Way of Uinta Agency — The Major Goes Out to Find a Way In
CHAPTER VII
On to Battle — A Concert Repertory — Good-bye to Douglas Boy — The Busy, Busy Beaver — In the Embrace of the Rocks Once More — A Relic of the Cliff-Dwellers — Low Water and Hard Work — A Canyon of Desolation — Log-cabin Cliff — Rapids and Rapids and Rapids — A Horse, whose Horse? — Through Gray Canyon to the Rendezvous
CHAPTER VIII
Return of the Major — Some Mormon Friends — No Rations at the Elusive Dirty Devil — Captain Gunnison's Crossing — An All-night Vigil for Cap. and Clem — The Land of a Thousand Cascades — A Bend Like a Bow-knot and a Canyon Labyrinthian — Cleaving an Unknown World — Signs of the Oldest Inhabitant — Through the Canyon of Stillwater to the Jaws of the Colorado
CHAPTER IX
A Wonderland of Crags and Pinnacles — Poverty Rations — Fast and Furious Plunging Waters — Boulders Boom along the Bottom — Chilly Days and Shivering — A Wild Tumultuous Chasm — A Bad Passage by Twilight and a Tornado With a Picture Moonrise — Out of One Canyon into Another — At the Mouth of the Dirty Devil at Last
CHAPTER X
The Cañonita Left Behind — Shinumo Ruins — Troublesome Ledges in the River — Alcoves and Amphitheatres — The Mouth of the San Juan — Starvation Days and a Lookout for Rations — El Vado de Los Padres — White Men Again — Given up for Lost — Navajo Visitors — Peaks with a Great Echo — At the Mouth of the Paria
CHAPTER XI
More Navajos Arrive with Old Jacob — The Lost Pack-train and a Famished Guide — From Boat to Broncho — On to Kanab — Winter Arrives — Wolf Neighbours too Intimate — Preparing for Geodetic Work — Over the Kaibab to Eight-mile Spring — A Frontier Town — Camp below Kanab — A Mormon Christmas Dance
CHAPTER XII
Reconnoitring and Triangulating — A Pai Ute New Year's Dance — The Major Goes to Salt Lake — Snowy Days on the Kaibab —
CHAPTER XIII
Off for the Unknown Country
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CHAPTER XV
A New Departure
- Sales Rank: #1697899 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-03-26
- Released on: 2009-03-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"A document of primary importance in the literature of the exploration of the West . . . While its primary appeal will no doubt be to river runners and river historians, it ought not to be neglected by anyone interested in outdoor living and exploration. Dellenbaugh was equalled, perhaps, only by Major Powell himself in the ability to convey drama and a sense of movement through an almost indescribably spectacular and challenging country, and few readers indeed will be able to leave the book alone until Dellenbaugh has taken them around that last bend in the canyon." —Utah Historical Quarterly
From the Inside Flap
This account of the second Powell expedition is a reprint of the 1962 edition and includes all 50 illustrations and a substantial foreword by William H. Geotzmann.
"One of the seminal books on western history . . . The author was only 17 when he began the expedition, and he honestly hero-worshipped Powell all his life. Yet this bright, sharp account is so detailed and truthful that the reader can see through his enthusiasm to discover Powell's mean spirit and sometimes reckless nature. It's also a great river-running book." --"Deseret News"
"It was decidedly worth writing, this detailed record: a more absorbing, , and at times stirring, story of adventure has not seen the light in a long time, and the author's unadorned, yet vivid, style enables the reader to share all the emotions of the explorers: " --"The Nation"
"In these later years (1909) when amateur travel in the west is frequent, a detailed record of this kind will be of value to seekers after adventure." --"Science"
About the Author
John Wesley Powell (1834 1902) was a US soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first known passage through the Grand Canyon.
Most helpful customer reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A Trip down the Vanished Colorado
By Gary Reger
Frederick Dellaenbaugh was a young man when John Wesley Powell tapped him to participate in Powell's second trip down the Colorado River. Powell had made the journey already a few years before, so the second voyage was less pure exploration and more science; the crew included Almon Harris Thompson (called affectionately "Prof." throughout), a professional geographer who also happened to be Powell's brother-in-law. With several boats and men of widely varying experience, the expedition sailed the Green river (thought at that time to be the upper Colorado) to its junction with the Colorado, and the Colorado itself as far as the middle of the Grand Canyon. Swirling rapids, maggotty food, blistering heat, sudden blizzards beset the adventurers, who still though it all made their geographical, geological, and ethnographical observations which resulted in (among other things) the first maps of the four corners region and the Grand Canyon (reproduced in the book).
While wild adventure, humor, and a real sense of the Old West permeate the book, there is a certain sadness, too. The Native Americans whom Dellenbaugh encounters are people clearly already defeated -- fearful, distrusting, sad. We catch glimpses of the Navaho trying to accommodate themselves to the new reality of white (especially Mormon) settlement, creating new networks of trade focused on growing frontier towns. But the seeds of the end are planted already in the irrigated fields of the Mormon settlers, and sometimes it seems as if the natives knew this too. Also, the topography through which the explorers travelled has now partly vanished behind the dams that have ruined Glen Canyon and other stretches of white water and canyon scenery. No one can now do what Dellenbaugh and his companions did; the sense of loss hovers unintentionally about every page.
Dellenbaugh was a keen observer (though perhaps a bit naive) with a talent for making even the monotony of running rapid after rapid spellbinding. One does feel that he may have veiled some of the conflicts that must have arisen in two (non-continuous) years of isolation, though if so this trait is refreshing in a world where we now expect everyone to tattle on everyone else. Every now and then just a shimmer of impatience with one of the crew seeps through. But the real hero who emerges from this book, somewhat surprisingly, is not the leader Powell -- the young Dellenbaugh seems never to have gotten close to him -- but rather the Prof., who rises to every challenge with decency and humaneness, and of whom Dellenbaugh seems to have been genuinely, and for good reason, in awe. Like Powell he is buried in Arlington Cemetery. He deserved that honor, but where he lives is in the pages of this book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Rivals Ambose's book on Lewis & Clark
By A Customer
At the time of the 2nd voyage down the Colorado, Dellenbaugh was on about 19 years old. He didn't write the book until many years later. What a wonderful/spellbinding look at the most beautiful place in North America (The Colorado Plateau). Not only that but I found it extremely hunorous as well. Great Great book!!!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Documentary.
By Erik M. Moeser
This is an exceptionally well written account of a wonderful adventure through the canyons of the Colorado River. For anyone who loves the West's wildness, and writing most sensitive and humorous, this is a "must read". This book is illustrated with many fine original photographs and etchings.
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