The Romance of the Colorado River | Page 4

by Dianne Bean, Prescott Valley, Arizona.
NOTE:
List of the maps, graphs, photos, and paintings scanned from The
Romance of the Colorado River by Dellenbaugh. Fewer than half of the
pictures in the book were scanned to accompany the etext. These
images accompany the .zip version of this etext.
Page/.jpg file number Description
000front. Frontpiece. Looking Up the Bright Angel Trail. Moran.
000glyph. Tail-piece of Preface. Sketch of a picture-writing.
000xvii. The Steamer "Undine."
00prefmap. Preface. Map showing Relation of the Canyons of the
Green and Colorado to the Surrounding Country.
015. Alarcon's Ships Struggling With the Great Bore of the
Colorado--1540.
026. The Colorado at the Junction of the Gila.

030. Cocopa Tule Raft.
037. Map. The Grand-Marble Canyon Region.
041. The "Hole in the Wall" near Fort Defiance, Arizona.
041. opp. Relief Map of the Grand Canyon Region.
043. Looking Down Upon Glen Canyon.
052. Gray's Peak, Torrey's Peak.
055. Outline Sketch of the Grand Canyon from Point Sublime.
057. Profile of the Colorado Through the Grand Canyon.
079. Across the House Tops of Zuni.
081. Ruin Called Casa Grande, Arizona.
083. In the Grand Canyon. Kolb Expedition 1911.
093. In the Moki Town of Mishongnuvi, Arizona.
095. The Canyon of the Little Colorado.
098. A Zuni Home.
099. The Governors of Zuni.
101. Pai Ute Girls, Southern Utah, Carrying Water.
109. Map. Green River through the Uinta Mountains 1871
113. Ashley Falls, Red Canyon, Green River, inset with Ashley's rock
signature.
129. A Portage in the Canyon of Lodore.
137. Las Vegas, Southern Nevada, on the Old Spanish Trail, 1876.

159. Robinson's Landing, mouth of the Colorado river.
161. The Steamer Explorer in which Lieut. Ives in 1858 Ascended the
Colorado to Foot of Black Canyon.
163. Looking Down on the Grand Canyon from the Mouth of the
Kanab.
178. A Glen of Glen Canyon.
180. In Cataract Canyon.
185. John Wesley Powell, about 1876.
195. Red Canyon--Green River. Upper portion. Looking up stream.
197. Canyon of Lodore--Upper part of Disaster Falls.
201. Canyon of Lodore. Looking down at Triplet Falls.
203. Echo Rock on Right, from which Echo Rock Takes its Name.
205. The Canyon of Desolation--Sumner's Amphitheatre.
206. The Canyon of Desolation--Low Water.
214. The Crags at Millecrag Bend, foot of Cataract Canyon.
215. The Music Temple Alcove, Glen Canyon.
217. The Depths of the Grand Canyon at Sunset.
219. The Grand canyon. The "Sockdologer" Rapid.
223. In the Midst of a Grand Canyon Rapid.
225. The Grand canyon--Granite Buttresses.
229. The Basket Maker. Old woman of the Kaibab Pai Utes.

231. Brother Belder's--Virgen City. A typical frontier Mormon home.
242. Ready for the Start, U.S. Colorado River Expedition, Green River,
Wyoming, 1871.
243. Portraits of all by Two Members of the Boat Party of the U.S.
Colorado River Expedition of 1871.
267. A Halt for Observations.
275. The Butte of the Cross, between Labyrinth and Stillwater
Canyons.
285. Cataract Canyon, Right-hand Wall Near Lower End.
289. Glen Canyon Wall.
290. Glen Canyon.
302. The Crew of the "Trilobite."
308. Major Powell and a Pai Ute. Southern Utah, 1872.
315. Major Powell in the field, 1872.
321. Marble Canyon.
326. F.S. Dellenbaugh, 1872. The exploring costume.
329. Running the Sockdologer, Grand Canyon.
333. What May Happen Anytime. Boat punctured.
335. A Capsize in the Grand Canyon.
345. In Marble Canyon.
352. One of the Julien Inscriptions. D. Julien--1863--3 Mai.

360. The Grand Canyon. In the First Granite Gorge.
365. Looking up the Grand Canyon, at the Foot of Toroweap, Uinkaret
Division, 1875.
366. The Grand Canyon--Lava Falls.
367. On the Bright Angel Trail.
374. John Wesley Powell. 1834-1902. 1901 portrait.
388. Appendix. The canyons, valleys, and mouths of principal
tributaries of the Colorado, in order, page 1.
389. Appendix. The canyons, valleys, and mouths of principal
tributaries of the Colorado, in order, page 2.
392. In the Grand Canyon Opposite Shinumo Creek.

The Romance of the Colorado River: The Story of its Discovery in
1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special
Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great
Canyons
By Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Member of the United States Colorado River Expedition of 1871 and
1872
"No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms: This, as it frothed by, might
have been a bath For the fiend's glowing hoof----" Browning
To my friends and comrades of the Colorado River Expedition of 1871
and 1872 in grateful remembrance.
PREFACE
Early in 1871, when Major Powell* was preparing for his second

descent through the canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers, he was
besieged by men eager to accompany him; some even offered to pay
well for the privilege. It was for me, therefore, a piece of great good
fortune when, after an interview in Chicago with the eminent explorer,
he decided to add