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Show 3493 1515 4 Dellenbaugh- D Q Generally, Mr. Dellenbaugh, what has been your experience in life, and your occupation? A Artist and writer, and earlier, topographer with the Powell expedition. Q Mr. Dellenbaugh, starting in with your earliest connection with that, just please tell me your experience on the Colorado river and the tributaries of the Colorado river. A Well, I joined the Powell expedition in 1871, and we launched our boats at the railway bridge of the Union Pacific Railway, in Wyoming, and we descended the river that season about seven months, to the mouth of what is now called Lee's Ferry, and we carried on our topographic work on the land through the winter of 1871 and 1872, and in 1872 in the summer, in August, we entered Marble Gorge of the Grand Canyon, and descended as far as the mouth of Kanab canyon. There we left the river and continued our work on the land, topographic and geodetic work, triangulating the country and getting the topography; and in December, 1872, and January, 1873, we laid out the first map of the region north of the Grand Canyon and northern Arizona and southern Utah. I put in the topography, and we rolled that map up and put it in a tin tube, soldered in; I carried that on horseback to Salt Lake City in 1873. February. Then I went back east from there. That is an out-line of my experience on the river. |