Church Historian's Office compilations of Utah and Nevada local history sources, 1929.

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Church Historian's Office compilations of Utah and Nevada local history sources, 1929.

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Seven carbon typescripts from the Church Historian's Office in Salt Lake City, bound at the top, corrected in Dellenbaugh's hand, possibly gathered as evidence in a case between Utah and the Federal government in which Dellenbaugh testified. The typescripts contain selected transcripts from Mormon diaries from the 1850s to the 1880s describing the settlement and exploration of Utah and Nevada, specifically the San Juan Region, Kanab Stake, Moab, Las Vegas Mission, St. George Stake, and the Colorado River. The last section contains a note: "Copied by U.S. General Land Office, Salt Lake City," and contains a cover letter from a mining engineer in the General Land Office to Randolph S. Collins, Department of Justice, dated 1929 Sep 20.

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Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935

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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, artist, topographer, explorer and author, was born September 13, 1853 in McConnelsville, Ohio. After graduating from high school in Buffalo, New York, Dellenbaugh's interest in painting and boating led his uncle Almon Harris Thompson to introduce him to John Wesley Powell. Thompson was Powell's brother-in-law and served as second-in-command and chief topographer of Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River in 1871-1873. Powell appointed the seventeen year o...

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Historian's Office.

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Frederick Dellenbaugh, member of John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River, author of Romance of the Colorado River and other books. In 1929, he was called to testify on the Colorado River's navigability in a case between the state of Utah and the Federal government concerning who owned the riverbed and its minerals. The case was decided in the government's favor. From the description of Church Historian's Office compilations of Utah and Nevada local history sour...