Diary of Frank Mason Brown, 1889, June-July.

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Diary of Frank Mason Brown, 1889, June-July.

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Eighteen pages of the volume are Brown's diary entries for June 19 to July 6. He describes the group's activities as they made their way down the Colorado River, starting at Cataract Canyon and ending at Marble Canyon. Brown details their progress down the river and the scenery around them. He describes the Dirty Devil River, Glen Canyon, the San Juan River, and the Grand Canyon; he briefly mentions Robert Brewster Stanton. The other seventeen pages are notes Brown made regarding the natural resources (timber, petroleum, minerals, coal) of the Colorado River region.

35 pages, bound volume, 17 cm.

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Brown, Frank Mason.

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Frank Mason Brown was president of the Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad Company. He helped lead the Brown-Stanton Colorado River Survey in 1889; Robert Brewster Stanton was the chief engineer of the survey. Their goal was to determine if a railroad could be built along the river. The survey began in March 1889 at Grand Junction, Colorado. Frank Mason Brown drowned in Marble Canyon on July 10th. From the description of Diary of Frank Mason Brown, 1889, June-July. (Huntingt...

Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad Company.

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Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922

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